{"id":915,"date":"2017-03-24T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/24\/now-you-can-experience-the-life-of-a-redwood\/"},"modified":"2017-03-24T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:34:00","slug":"now-you-can-experience-the-life-of-a-redwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/24\/now-you-can-experience-the-life-of-a-redwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Now You Can Experience The Life Of A Redwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever wanted to experience the life of a tree and explore its being, now you can. <\/span>Treehugger: Wahoma<\/span><\/i>, a combination of virtual reality, data visualization, and installation art, takes participants on a journey through the nervous system of a 3,500-year-old redwood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Experience<\/a><\/p>\n

The exhibition, which was on display at <\/span>London’s Southbank Centre<\/span><\/a> back in December, was created by London-based interactive creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast<\/a>. During its time at the Centre, participants would begin their adventure by entering a small, dark studio space that contained a fabric-covered column in the middle of the room. Once they put on their HTV Vive VR headsets, the column would come alive and became a sequoia redwood tree. <\/span><\/p>\n

The virtual tree provided visitors with a colorful visualization of the complex networks of a sequoia\u2019s imperceptible micro-ecosystem. When physically interacting with the tree, visitors would transform to become part of the lymphatic system and be carried up to the canopy. They would then shrink to the size of molecules and become the droplets of water that come from the redwood\u2019s highest branches. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard the experience isn\u2019t that different from like, doing mushrooms,\u201d says creative director at Marshmallow Laser Feast Ersinhan Ersin.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marshmallow Laser Feast first began designing <\/span>Treehugger<\/span><\/i> after they completed <\/span>In the Eyes of the Animal<\/span><\/i>, a VR experience that allowed participants to explore habitats through the eyes of animals that live there. Both <\/span>Treehugger<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>In the Eyes of the Animal<\/span><\/i> provide people the ability to explore the natural world. But while <\/span>In the Eyes of the Animal<\/span><\/i> required users to operate their VR headsets in an\u00a0actual forest, <\/span>Treehugger<\/span><\/i> was a way to provide the experience indoors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the future, Marshmallow Laser Feast wants to develop different <\/span>Treehugger<\/span><\/i> \u201cchapters\u201d that explore the life of different kinds of trees. According to Ersin, their objective is to connect people with the natural world using virtual reality. \u201cWhen most people look at trees, they don\u2019t necessarily see them as being alive, because they move and grow so much more slowly than we do,\u201d says Ersin. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to give people a new perception of trees as creatures just as vibrant and alive as we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

[Via: <\/span>Fast.Co<\/span><\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Visual News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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