It calls between worlds in the Convergence Station. And if Meow Wolf is finding a starting point to build future collaborative spaces for artists in virtual realms, then the rest of us likely will too.I found this magic phone terminal in Denver. In some ways, we're seeing pieces of that form with Walkabout's kaleidoscope of mini-golf worlds. I'm amazed that at Meow Wolf, individual artists can find a voice in the swirling chaos, while collaborative teams can also weave ideas on top of that. While hardware like Apple's imminent Vision Pro headset and Meta's Quest 3 are accelerating the possibilities for immersion, they aren't completely solving the creative collaboration question for immersive futures. It's a future I've already seen happening: in this Meow Wolf mini-golf course, in ILMxLab's Star Wars Galaxy's Edge VR game and in my virtual experiences connected with Burning Man. Instead, he sees it as a complement to the physical experience - that you can have a virtual version of your theme park visit, to relive that real-world experience from home. Though his colleagues in the world of theme parks believe VR might someday make physical theme parks obsolete, he doesn't agree. If you have something as special as Numina, in Denver, and then you have Numina here, one can experience both of those things, and those two experiences could live together, in your imagination, in your mind."Ĭarson sees that as the future. "And I think that that is sort of a hint at the potential of being able to blur those lines. "Our brains don't file physical encounters and virtual encounters in a different place," Carson said. I love the massive immersion of a physical Meow Wolf world. These experiences can be small and personal, or large scale. I can travel to an immersive real-world destination, like a Meow Wolf installation or a Disney theme park. This can allow Meow Wolf to build exhibits in VR, in the real world, or both, which means more people can experience its exhibits without traveling to them.įor myself, when I want to escape to magical worlds, I have several options. While the company has used VR as a design tool for some time, Meow Wolf is getting more of its people trained on it for use as a design tool, but also as a medium. Kennedy also sees this being an open doorway to pushing Meow Wolf's installations beyond the physical. The work done on this course could be a test run for how to make future collaborative art experiences. The installation is something you can take with you, even while it's being built." In the headset, it kind of broke down that barrier of not being able to go, because it's in your pocket. "And we are limited now because we don't live in the cities where we are going to build. "Site-specific installation is where Meow Wolf started," Kennedy said. Kennedy is thinking about those things, too. Of course, I'm already wondering what Mighty Coconut's work with Meow Wolf says about the future of what we'll see in both VR and AR headsets, and even the process of design for everyday physical experiences. A sign of the process of future experiences? Despite the two teams being in different locations, they were able to work together in a VR room on the same level, simultaneously. This virtual collaboration process is what interests me the most because it feels like a precursor of where we'll all be going someday with collaborative tools in mixed reality. "Luckily, Caity was quite familiar with Gravity Sketch, so we could actually meet inside the course as it was growing." "We leveraged Gravity Sketch a lot as our initial rough version as well as what we call 'set decking,' which is sort of dollhouse furniture arrangement that we do in there," Carson, a former Disney Imagineer, said of the collaboration process. For example, the Meow Wolf course was designed using Gravity Sketch, an app that both Walkabout's team and Meow Wolf's Kennedy were already using. Prior to the collaboration, there were many parallels between how the two teams worked. There are structures in Meow Wolf's mini-golf course that mirror structures from the company's Denver installation, Convergence Station.
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