VR Manchester / Manchester Science Festival

VR Manchester @ Manchester Science Festival

Brilliant catching up with Catherine who I met down at the VR diversity initiative in summer, yet another really inspiring and powerful talk.

Followed by a great talk on empathy exploration within VR:

Feel such a part of the VR MCR family now, such an amazing bunch of friends!

Happy to find out my face has made the poster!!:

Amazing exhibits.. Such as the AquAIRiam

And KATwalk VR.

There were so many VR exhibits which was great to see, I connected with people from Reflex Arc a MR company in Leeds, and some other VR developers.

Night Light Leeds

I enjoyed exploring the delights of Light Night and was blown away by one spectacle inparticular.

A headset that when placed on your temples, reads your brainwaves and transforms it into audio via an organ with strobe lights coordinated to the pitch. This was so meta and I loved it. The subjects stood motionless on the stage with their backs to the audience, further instilling this creepy, futuristic vibe.

I was exploring similar philosophical things within my Cop3, the relationship between the organic and mechanic. The boy wears the machinery which produces music and visuals from his organic electric system. When you were stood as the audience watching, this therefore means you were also immersed inside his brain. Whilst the mechanic here doesn't replace the organic, it uses it to exaggerate it and succumb others.