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Come to the TableIt started with a kitchen table in New Zealand and a question from artist Mairi Gunn: can XR help strangers from different cultures actually meet? We recorded real conversations volumetrically and took the table to SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. This is the first post in a series tracing four years of that work. - 02
First Contact : XR for GoodAn art installation that uses various modes of Extended Reality (XR) to support social engagement and generate connections with a view to reversing processes of societal atomisation and intercultural discomfort (racism). - 03
Haptic Hongi: A Greeting You Can FeelIn a hongi, noses and foreheads press together and breath is shared. You cannot do that with a hologram, unless you bolt a shape memory alloy actuator to the headset and let it press back. Part three of the volumetric capture series, where the work gains a sense of touch. - 04
Haptic Hongi, ReiteratedFour years after the first table in Brisbane, the project came back to SIGGRAPH Asia, this time in Sydney, on a Magic Leap 2, with a capture pipeline light enough to fit in a suitcase. The final post in this series, with a look back at how far volumetric capture came between 2019 and 2023.
Series · 4 posts · 2019 to 2023
Evolution of Volumetric Capture
Four years of volumetric capture, from a kitchen table in Auckland to a demo booth in Sydney.
Start at part 1 → ≈ 23 min total read
