Augmented Bubbles

Today, as a paradigm shift, head-mounted displays (HMD) are being reintroduced as mixed reality (MR) instruments. MR allows designers to interact with and experience the physical and virtual world simultaneously in an immersive environment. In a 1995 essay, “The Vision of Virtual Reality”, Biocca, Kim, and Levy argued that the “essential copy” and “physical transcendence” were important drivers in the generation of mixed realities. They described the search for the “essential copy” as seeking a “means to fool the senses—a display that provides a perfect illusory deception,” while “physical transcendence” is rooted in an “ancient desire for escape from the confines of the physical world, [to] free the mind from the ‘prison’ of a body” (Biocca, Kim, and Levy 1995, 7). This theoretical foundation, with the latest technology, has inspired us to explore the relationship between the separator and the physical space, the perception of action, time, space, and the physical body.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2