{"id":8103,"date":"2024-06-06T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:59:26","slug":"doppelgaenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/doppelgaenger\/","title":{"rendered":"doppelgaenger:apparatus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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doppelgaenger:apparatus <\/em>is a multiuser mixed reality experience that enables participants to confront their computer generated 3D doubles in a real physical surrounding. Enabled by a custom designed AI-based process, a frontal 2D image of the participants is taken and quickly transformed into an animated 3D reconstruction. From the moment the visitors put on the headset, they see the real environment captured by a camera on the headset. Gradually, this familiar space shfits, with the appearance of the visitors\u2019 double standing before them. Co-present with other participants, visitors intimately interact with their \u2018mirror image\u2019 while observing and interacting with others doing the same. While at first the participants get the feeling of controlling their \u2018mirror image\u2019, this rapidly shifts as their doubles, free from the constraints of the original bodies, start to invade the participants\u2019 personal space, leading to a disturbing and uncanny play between them. Historically, a doppelg\u00e4nger was seen as a ghostly counterpart for a living person, seen as an omen or sign of death. Freud later argued that encountering one\u2019s double produces an experience of \u201cdoubling, dividing and interchanging the self.\u201d This installation thus takes the next step in exploring how new digital sytems increasingly produce uncanny tensions between our bodies and their captured other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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