Augmented reality is teeming with possibilities. As the technology garners more attention, developers around the world are keen to push the boundaries of the technology to unlock new experiences. This is especially true in the world of art, where technocratic artists are looking to blur the lines between the imagination and the real world. lifeClipper, an open air art project in Switzerland, is taking this concept to an extreme. The developers and artist behind the project jokingly claim that it could make LSD obsolete.
The lifeClipper project is entirely housed within a helmet equipped with augmented reality technology. The helmet features large, somewhat garish, eyewear that transforms the physical world into a digitally enhanced wonderland. Using augmented reality, the developers of lifeClipper have created a vibrant and psychedelic landscape for those wearing the helmet. For now, the experience is contained within the St. Johann’s Park, but will likely spread to the surrounding environment as the developers grow more ambitious.
Many artists have taken to using technology as a way to enhance their work, but none have done so to the extent that the lifeClipper team has gone. The team designed their work around the concept of making the most visually stunning and surreal experiences possible. As such, the team has created a world so unlike anything anyone has experienced that it is akin to stepping directly into an alien landscape, equipped with impossible geometry and animals that have never existed, until now.