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By Divya Kasturi (Stevenage, UK)
The project involves creating an installation space that would accommodate limited participants/audience allowing them to experience the intended creation. The aim is to create a unique immersive experience whereby the participants would be able to create their own avatar. Depending on their personal choice, one can create more than one avatar based on their different persona (identities). Hence, there could be an instance where one may be surrounded by different versions of themselves. These versions will be created using 3-D holographic technology depending on technological feasibility.
This experience will parallel their simultaneous existence in online (?virtual) and offline (?real) modes. The participants would be able to trigger the formation of their avatars using specific gestures, chiming with creating usernames and passwords using specific alphanumeric characters. Considering that this installation will eventually form part of a live physical dance-theatre performance using Contemporary South Asian Dance movement vocabulary ( to be premiered in Spring 2015 in the UK), we would aim to use various gestures from Bharathanatyam style of dance. This would enable the participants to appreciate the complexity of South Asian dance, also adding the fun element whilst educating them simultaneously.
We thought the Leap Motion might be able to detect the various hand positions and tested out LeapTrainer.js, but found that the tracking was too unreliable and the sensor needed to be very close to the user which would not work for the installation.
Domonick was very generous to bring a plexi-glass pyramid that he developed for creating 360 "hologram" displays. The effect is similar to what we will try but on a larger scale.
