{"id":24834,"date":"2026-09-12T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/extended-reality-takes-visitors-from-the-ruins-of-west-bank-to-17th-century-amsterdam-at-venice-immersive\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:37:17","slug":"extended-reality-takes-visitors-from-the-ruins-of-west-bank-to-17th-century-amsterdam-at-venice-immersive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/extended-reality-takes-visitors-from-the-ruins-of-west-bank-to-17th-century-amsterdam-at-venice-immersive\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive"},"content":{"rendered":"

From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close \u2013 but this year the exhibits live on<\/p>\n

The first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival\u2019s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece and two speakers. On peering inside you see a view of yourself from about 20ft above. You see the other guests walking past, a couple of pigeons on the ground. When one of these passersby lingers at your side for just a moment too long, the obvious impulse is to glance up from the eyepiece in order to see what they want. It is at this point that the experience blooms into a Lynchian nightmare.<\/p>\n

The passerby is not real \u2013 or rather, he\u2019s only real in the box. He wears a blue suit and speaks with a heavy French accent and tells a tale that would sit badly in polite company. He says that I must have too much time on my hands, to stand hunched over this eyepiece for several minutes on end. \u201cWhy do people keep looking inside this box?\u201d he demands. \u201cWhat is it that they hope to see? It is not reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nFrom frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close \u2013 but this year the exhibits live on
\nThe first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival\u2019s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece and two speakers. On peering inside you see a view of yourself from about 20ft above. You see the other guests walking past, a couple of pigeons on the ground. When one of these passersby lingers at your side for just a moment too long, the obvious impulse is to glance up from the eyepiece in order to see what they want. It is at this point that the experience blooms into a Lynchian nightmare.
\nThe passerby is not real \u2013 or rather, he\u2019s only real in the box. He wears a blue suit and speaks with a heavy French accent and tells a tale that would sit badly in polite company. He says that I must have too much time on my hands, to stand hunched over this eyepiece for several minutes on end. \u201cWhy do people keep looking inside this box?\u201d he demands. \u201cWhat is it that they hope to see? It is not reality.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close \u2013 but this year the exhibits live on The first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival\u2019s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece …<\/p>\n

Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}