Mixed Reality Project Book

Description

This is a book that looks at gadgets and their attending immersive environments. It is a book of project proposals, research,musing, and project completions. The writing for this series took place over the winter and spring of 2016. From Berlin to Denver and New York City we began to explore the social and psychological dimension of the new ‘room scale’ Virtual Reality. This book is a series of projects, drawings, essays, observations, and project proposals that graft simplified meaning onto the ways we inhabit public space, privatized propaganda, and expression in spectacle, commerce, and performance. It views the telematic from a world that swims in the ‘fiat currency’ that was unhinged from real gold over forty years ago and is now the ‘mass customization’ of mobile and VR computing. It pokes at the world of ‘shadow currency’ in the form of narratives. Are we disembodied? Are zombies the perfect description of moving, aggressive, non-entities who ‘are not really there’?

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