The Chorus explores how the viewer’s physical environment can be augmented digitally to create a ‘possibility space’ in which videos, sounds, testimonies and artefacts in the online archive Srbska.org can be revealed to the viewer in an intimate, personalised and memorable way. Central to this experimentation is the question of how the viewer can be implicated as narrator of their own unique interpretation of the past.
This is a Mixed Reality (MR) experiment using the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality Head Mounted Display (HMD). MR is an emerging technology in which digital artefacts – three-dimensional objects, static or animated, audio and video, may be projected into the viewer’s real surroundings. Unlike Virtual Reality headsets, which exclude the external environment, the visor in the HMD is transparent, allowing the use of the real world around the viewer as a stage on to which artefacts are projects as holograms.
A downloadable PDF was a detailed description of this experiment and the research behind it can be found below.