If you are addicted to playing games that are set up in the virtual world, then without doubt subconsciously a part of you would be yearning to exist in that world. Though it isn’t exactly possible, but just to get a feel of it, Japanese designer Takehito Etani has conceived a devise called Third Eye. This video device is mounted onto the user’s head enabling the user to experience perception from outside of his body. It consists of a mono-eyed goggle with a 2-inch LCD monitor and a tiny surveillance camera held above the user’s head. Although the user may look like a Maritian, this kinda system enables the user to feel that he is the character moving about in a virtual space. Akin to that of a 3D video game in which the user controls and follows a given character from behind! Watch out for the video.......
In the video documentation, the artist wears the device and performs some daily activities such as cooking and eating a meal as well as taking an evening stroll down a busy street in Times Square.
By replacing the subjective view with an objective one, The Third Eye Project points out the relativity of one’s perspective to his body. It also raises the question, “What is real and what is virtual to one’s body?” I think it will be exciting to live through this out-of-reality subsistence.
Via Likecool
