Converge is an interactive work for Deep Space 8K by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, based on SHARESPACE, a large European R&D project on using avatars in social situations. In Converge, up to ten participants on site and one external person in a motion capture suit are tracked – they have to communicate through movement and…
*falcon heavy is a multi-user experience and stereoscopic audiovisual sculpture for Deep Space 8K, generated in real-time. An ever-shifting entity rules the ritualistic semi-virtual arena; populated by people participating together to find synchronous signals in all the noise.
State of Play:شهر بازی by artists Tara Habibzadeh, Harriet Davey, and Mati Bratkowski, is a game-based participative art performance referencing the 7 Labors of Rostam in the long epic poem Shahnameh by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Iran, 977–1010 CE). In it, up to 5 audience members reenact the final labour, controlling their avatars of Rostam in…
How could humans use digital avatars in the near future? How can we engage in social situations that include both human and automated avatars? And what technology do we need to explore these ‘hybrid’ spaces together? This is the focus of the European R&D project SHARESPACE.
Digital Graffiti is an innovative technology platform that was developed starting in 2001. It allowed virtual messages and information to be left like electronic post-its in any location. Using mobile devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants), notebooks and later smartphones, these messages were retrieved on a location-specific basis and superimposed on the real environment…
Spotless’s goal is to empower users to utilize arbitrary objects as communication channels. The basic concept is to connect objects or “artifacts” by the means of their visual equality.
In collaboration with BRP Rotax, the Ars Electronica Futurelab created an experience of the latest technologies in the field of digital gaming worlds and analog machine technology. In the Rotax MAX Dome, opened in 2019, visitors can test the engine manufacturer’s new e-karts on a sophisticated racetrack, race through virtual worlds and experience specially developed…
INSTAR was a unique new approach to navigation systems (for instance, in autos) that went beyond conventional two-dimensional visualizations and utilized augmented reality.