But this is a minor complaint considering that Gallery Invasion shows some of the largely untapped storytelling potential of immersive projection mapping, mini or otherwise.
Alone inside the installation is a very jarring and hypnotizing experience: intense spacialized audio paired with a rush of immersive projection mapping.
Akten's background in audiovisual installation has led him to work on an interactive laser forest, glitchy, real-time scanning, and immersive projection mapping experiences.
"Immersive, living, rich" maps that draw on multiple content sources and applications and change based on context, or display data in new and playful ways, says Ryan. Maps that also "know and understand you, and suggest things for you".
The piece, called H OM E OMOR PH ISM, is an immersive audiovisual performance mapped against the curved surface of The Digital Dome at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico.
It's no "street view for cats," but Google's newly launched Street View mobile app does promise to make it easier to explore Google Map's immersive, 360-degree imagery as well as contribute your own photos to improve the overall Google Maps experience.
The core of its wholly immersive redesign is that "Map is the new user interface," said Jonah Jones, the lead designer of Google Maps.
"Our view is on this you differentiate on this more through actually making richer, deeper, interactive, immersive experiences with the map and really evolve how people think about a 2D or a 3D map.
With his company, PRICKIMAGE, he specializes in uniquely immersive visuals, body and video mapping, and interactive installations.
Fabric Play was exhibited this past weekend at Boston's Illuminus Arts Festival, a nighttime event that featured immersive visuals, large-scale projection mapping, and music. .
