Situator
Co Situator is an iconoclastic Virtual Reality (VR) experience that explore the shareability in inherently isolated VR experience
Situator comprises spatial recording and playback tools. A camera attachment and an app enable people to easily record spatial data when filming. To play back this information, we created large and personal scale Situator Displays. The project was made by Sean Hammett, Nat Martin, Jack O'Leary McNeice and me
How It Works
Spatial data is collected using the Camera Situator attachment or Situator App as the user shoots a video, creating a motion track for the captured video. Using a custom algorithm, the motion track is smoothed and calibrated to match the recorded video. The motion track and video are then transferred to a Situator Display. The recorded video and motion track are played back together through a Situator Display.
Background
There is a fundamental contradiction inherent to virtual reality technology. It successfully relates digital content to space, but it does so by isolating us completely from the real space around us. We do not want a future where our lives are segregated by headsets. Could we communicate the spatial information of digital content without isolating ourselves from the world around us? Could we expand the VR bubble?
By adding spatial expression to digital content, we have created a novel medium for digital communication. Situator helps the viewer orientate themselves in a remote space, enables communication of new forms of perspective, and creates a less passive and more engaging form of digital experience. It puts everything in its place.
By adding spatial expression to digital content, we have created a novel medium for digital communication. Situator helps the viewer orientate themselves in a remote space, enables communication of new forms of perspective, and creates a less passive and more engaging form of digital experience. It puts everything in its place.
To encourage regular people as well as filmmakers to use these techniques, we created a small scale Situator, the desktop Situator. It works with any smartphone.
On a small scale, we believe communicating the movement that is already recorded by the devices we carry can add an exciting new dimension to communication both through telepresence and messaging. We would like this to be usable anywhere. We envision a personal device that can, when a message or a call arrives, be released from your hand and hover, drone like, animating your companion’s distant movements through space.
On a small scale, we believe communicating the movement that is already recorded by the devices we carry can add an exciting new dimension to communication both through telepresence and messaging. We would like this to be usable anywhere. We envision a personal device that can, when a message or a call arrives, be released from your hand and hover, drone like, animating your companion’s distant movements through space.
Our Journey
We set out to create an experience that accounted for the isolating effects of augmented and virtual reality, but could also allow a dynamic glimpse into a virtual world. We want to offer a future where digital experiences are physically shareable, not physically isolating, and where our digital devices encourage and embody rather than replace the movement that is so key to our experiences of the world.
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