Marc Owens's augmented reality project "Avatar Machine" puts its users in VR helmets that display the world around them as though they were playing a third-person game, so that their own body is seen from behind. Owens theorizes that "The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment."
Avatar Machine (via Beyond the Beyond)
Previously:
- VR camera/goggle kit for R/C models - Boing Boing
- Guy uses VR goggles to pilot RC plane - Boing Boing
- Immersive VR Pacman - Boing Boing
- This thirty-page interview with VR - Boing Boing
- VR Goggles Heal Scars of War - Boing Boing
- Augmented reality experiment from gamemaker Introversion - Boing Boing
- Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality ...
- Augmented reality system filters out moving objects - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Augmented reality demo video: mindblowing
- Boing Boing: Augmented reality Halo derivative goes nutso
- frog Design's electronic facemask re-skins reality - Boing Boing
- Neat special effects added to street video - Boing Boing
