Moving Cities – Same but Different, VR (V2), Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, by Marc Lee

The Moving Cities VR is the Virtual Reality Version for HTC Vive data google. It can be uses as Interactive Net- and Telepresence-Based Installation for exibitons in museums, galleries and media art festivals. 0:00 3D rendering - Shanghai as example 0:40 Exhibition view 1:21 User Interface 1:34 Datong as example 2:03 3D rendering - Tokyo as example Interactive net-and-telepresence-based installation Description: Location: Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, 2016/2017 (Version 2) Space: 6 x 6 x 3m (WDH) Hardware: HTC Vive Data Google, two tracking sensors Different Versions of Moving Cities: Credits: Marc Lee in collaboration with e-Installation - the Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratoy (ISAS) and the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) “ Moving Cities – Same but Different deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. The user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as YouTube, Flickr or Twitter. Here these personal impressions are streamed in real time like windows to our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. In virtual space, this information is visualized on cubes that rise at different heights to become a kind of skyline. The work deals with how our cities are continuously changing and increasingly resemble one. This results in more and more non-places/places of lost places in the sense of Marc Augé’s book and essay Non-Places, which could exist all over the world without any true local identity (mostly anonymous transition zones such as motorways, hotel rooms or airports). Using a HTC Vive data google that hangs from the ceiling the user can walk inside a 6x6m space. People standing outside the installation can also see in a projection the user’s perspective. A 5.1 sound system transmit the sound to the exhibit space. Two sensors localize the user’s position and transmit it to the Unreal rendering engine that teleports the user into the desired cities.