The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtual and augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces.
The four installations were created by architect Gilles Retsin, 3D-scanning studio ScanLAB, designer Keiichi Matsuda and design studio Soft Bodies.
Together they form the third and final instalment of Invisible Landscapes, a project by RA curator Gonzalo Herrero Delicado exploring how digital technologies are changing the world.
Gilles Retsin used plywood modules to create a geometric structure
"The last act of Invisible Landscapes explores how the virtual might transform the physical space and vice versa," the curator explained.
"Four works, including two new commissions, explore how virtual, augmented and mixed reality are blurring the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, and questioning what is real and what is fictional, questioning how we might interact with and look at the world around us, both now and in the near future." Assemblers used Microsoft HoloLens headsets to guide them as each interlocking module was put in place
Real Virtuality was a new commission from Bartlett School of Architecture tutor Gilles Retsin, whose previous works include a robot-built chair made using a 3D printer, and prototypes for a 3D-printed plastic house.
The London-based architect combined plywood with digital technology and augmented reality construction techniques, to design an...