Earth Online
Raspberry Pi, LCD Monitor, Camera, PLA 3D Printing, Battery
30 x 6 x 5 inches
When I was younger, I often played video games with my friends. The language between us often becomes very interesting, just like we haven't gotten out of the game yet.
For example, we call calling a taxi "flight." (Language in World of Warcraft)
We call eating meal "eating bread."
When we go back to home, we will say, "I am using hearthstone."
When I am addicted to the game world, others often say that this is just a game, which is not helpful for your real world at all. You can't do what you can do in the game in the real world.
However, I often think about:
"Can't I?"
The piece I did tried to combine the game with the real world. With a third-person perspective, you can see yourself objectively, transforming some of your actions into pressing buttons, and transforming the user's status information into data such as hit point, experience, and reputation. This is also an experimental or exploratory object for myself. After wearing it, I felt a lot of possibilities, and maybe I can really normally working with this equipment after practice. I‘m also thinking about many question at the same time.
What is the difference between the game world and reality?
When our real world becomes a form of playing games, will we make some different decisions? Such as the parachute?
Is the human body itself actually a game machine of our brain?
本作品是由沉浸式头戴设备,摄像头,电子肌肉控制器和其他模块化部件组成。
用户通过头后的摄像头观察自己,就像是在玩一个MMORPG游戏。通过点按虚拟的按钮来控制自己做出行为。
当我小的时候,经常与朋友们玩电动游戏。我们之间的语言经常变得很有趣,就像还没有从游戏里走出来的样子。比如我们将打出租车叫做“飞行”。(魔兽世界中的用语)我们将吃饭叫做“吃面包”。当我们回家时我们会说:“我炉石了”。
当我沉迷于游戏世界时,其他人经常会说这只是一个游戏,这对于你的现实世界而言没有一点帮助。你根本不可能在现实世界里做游戏里能做的事。
但是我经常在想:
“不能吗?”
我做的这个作品试图将游戏和现实世界结合。用第三人称视角,客观的看到自己,将自己的一些动作转化成按按钮,将用户的状态信息转化成hp值,经验值,和声望值等数据。这对我自己而言也是一个试验性的探索性的物体。带上它之后,我感到了很多的可能性,也许经过练习之后真的可以利用这种设备正常的工作。同时也在思考很多问题。
游戏世界到底和现实有什么不同?
当我们的现实世界变成玩游戏的形式的时候,我们会做出一些不一样的决定吗?
人类的肉体本身实际上是不是我们大脑的游戏机呢?