![]() ![]() In Gender Swap, two people stand back to back, synchronize their movements, and see in 3D - wearing a display known to produce amazingly realistic effects - what the person standing behind them is viewing. For a still greater sense of trading places, those musings can include experiences or memories associated with objects the other person picks up in his or her room - say a photo, toy, pack of cigarettes, or mirror. The storyteller, or "performer," as BeAnotherLab calls this participant, also wears a microphone for transmitting personal thoughts to the other's headphones to further enhance the realism of the embodiment experience. Gender Swap uses BeAnotherLab's low-budget, open-source Machine To Be Another, a system that allows one person to share a story by transmitting first-person video in real time to the goggles of a second person in another, identical room. ![]() Gender Swap, an experiment from Spanish art and technology collective BeAnotherLab, combines Oculus Rift head-mounted displays and first-person cameras to, well, let participants virtually swap genders. Who among us hasn't wondered at one point or another what it would be like to be another person, and maybe one of another gender? ![]()
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