Humanoid 1.0
360 Cinema
a perceptual journey not with your eyes but your brain
The only true voyage of discovery
[would be] to possess other eyes,
to behold the universe through the eyes of another.
— Marcel Proust
You can see yourself see,
and you are the only one seeing what you see.
You are your own pilot.
— Bean Lotto, ‘Deviate’
HUMANOID 1.0 is a 360-degree 3D abstract animation artwork based on a phenomenon called Binocular Rivalry, in which the viewer, with the VR headset, is placed at the center of a huge cubic room and their eyes are presented with two different images of the room with gradually changing colors, contents, etc. Besides, the field of view of the viewer is also changed successively. Step by step, the perception of the viewer on the color, space, movement keeps changing while exploring the abstract and virtual world.
The room in HUMANOID is like Alice’s wonderland. Through the rabbit hole (the VR goggle), the viewer is dropped into a hidden wonderland of their own perception, in which they are exposed to a new, abstract and unfamiliar environment and at the same time they maintain their self-sense while they are forced to take two strange views from two eyes.
– What if my left eye sees a different world from my right eye does?
– How our brain ‘sees’ the world?
– What if I am a fish-like human?
– How does the brain construct conscious experience?
– What factors affect the dominance in perception and drive the switch between dominant and suppressed eye?
– How the sense of direction and spaciousness changes when the field of view changes?
( ***Notice: Before watching, please select 4K quality. The Vimeo player only shows the view of the left eye so you obviously can’t watch the work on Vimeo. To watch the work, you can either download the work from Vimeo and use VR headset and 360 video player or install the Vimeo App and use Google Cardboard with your phone. Below is a screen-recorded video in which you can see the left and right visions. )