Disconnection

This project aims to explore our self perception by disconnecting and rerouting our visual and auditory perception from our body. It does so, by letting one person slip into the role of the observer. Another person becomes the receiver. The receiver’s perspective gets replaced by the observer’s, giving him control over your vision and sense of hearing.

Focusing on altering the humans natural senses and perception with the help of digital artifacts, we came up with the idea of constructing two devices, which let people merge their perspectives, creating a whole new body experience for its users.

Our Prototype consists of two connected parts:

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Both camera and microphones are connected to a laptop computer to filter the signals and apply several video and audio effects.

The receiving helmet is composed by a pair of video-glasses with a 640x480 resolution display and a pair of headphones. The video-glasses are placed inside a welder mask in order to have a totally dark environment to eliminate all external stimuli.

The system projects the perspective of the observer on the receiving person and, at the same time, aims to cut the receiver's senses and perception off from his body, giving him a feeling of disorientation and loss of control. It does so, by displaying the camera of the observer's helmet on the head up display of the receiver's helmet. The same happens with the binaurally recorded sounds. The observer is meant to keep the receiver always in the sight of his camera but he is free to decide on his movement and thus on the projected perspective. Binaural sound and visual effects are implemented to radically enhance the experience of separation and sensorial ambiguity.

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This Project was done in collaboration with Marco Dondana

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