![]() In ReachYou's protopia, progress involves connecting to yourself and others in "authentic and vulnerable" ways, Goldsaito said. Protopias hope for technology to bring about a complicated progress toward a future that is better than present. The word, coined by Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly, describes a middle ground between the nightmare of dystopia and the unattainability - and stasis - of utopia. "If we are living now in a dystopia, then we need more visions of protopias," she said. Katrina Goldsaito, one of the project creators, said the team behind ReachYou created it "for strangers to connect over the things that are most important about being human and to give people a fierce nostalgia for the world we're living in right now." ![]() ReachYou feels like meta-therapy sent from a metaverse.ĭescribed as a "transmission from the future built for the tenderness of the present," ReachYou is an AR experience that transforms your phone into a portal, both to receive messages sent by a meditative emissary from the future and to record your own contemplations on "the human record." They're also a tease of what things look like if our destiny really is to live in a metaverse ( debatable). Unless you were there, though, you probably missed them.īut three of Tribeca's best AR art experiments are available now - free - for anyone with a phone to experience them. One of the latest, Tribeca Festival in New York last month, revived the full-blown, in-person installations of its Immersive curation for the first time in more than two years. But now, AR - which overlays the real world with digital ornaments - has regained one prominent stage to show off its cutting edge again: immersive in-person experiences at big film festivals. VR headsets, which block out the real world to immerse you in a virtual one, suddenly commanded new appeal when everything social shut down and we sequestered ourselves at home. ![]() Whatever our metaverse future may be, artists' AR experiences can give you a glimpse of its more thoughtful possibilities.Īugmented reality took a backseat to virtual reality in the pandemic. ![]() Three of the best augmented reality projects from Tribeca Festival are available for anyone - free, no trip to New York required. ![]()
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