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VR at Schlosspost

For the second time, Akademie Schloss Solitude has awarded Schlosspost web residencies. The call on the topic »Re-entering the Ultimate Display« for virtual reality projects of all kinds was curated by professor of new media Mario Doulis , who was also in charge of selecting the web residents.

For the second time, Akademie Schloss Solitude has awarded Schlosspost web residencies. The call on the topic »Re-entering the Ultimate Display« for virtual reality projects of all kinds was curated by professor of new media Mario Doulis (Merz Akademie Stuttgart), who was also in charge of selecting the web residents. The call took Ivan Sutherland’s concept of the »ultimate display« from the mid 1960s as a point of departure, which predicted what William Gibson described as »cyberspace« in the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s computer scientists and engineers developed under the term »virtual reality.« Now, a new generation of users has started to look through the looking glass, in the form of affordable technical devices like lite-weight 3D helmets, large scale 3D TV screens, and actual virtual reality standards and applications for the web. The call for web residencies »Re-entering the Ultimate Display« encouraged (digital) artists and scientists (alone or in teams) to share the digital wonderland they would create and inhabit. All kinds of virtual reality projects were welcome, for example interactive installations and applications inside and outside of the web, rides through 3D movies and worlds, virtual reality games, and so on. Over seventy fascinating project proposals were received from applicants from all over the world. The three chosen web residents will work on their projects for four weeks until July 4 2016, reporting on their steps. The shortlist for the call will be released soon. Find the three concepts from the new web residents together with statements from the juror here: http://schloss-post.com/schlosspost-web-residents-2/