A 3D digital rendering of performance artist Marina Abramovi? wandered around London's Serpentine Gallery in this mixed-reality art installation.
Marina Abramovi?: The Life was a series of performances that took place at the gallery over five days.
Visitors were asked to surrender all their belongings before donning a headset and entering an enclosed gallery space with a roped, five-metre circle, in which the Serbian artist was rendered as a 3D mobile simulation of herself.
The performance was recorded using made using 36 cameras that filmed Abramovi? from different angles
Made in collaboration with production studio Tin Drum, the Marina Abramovi?: The Life performance uses a combination of virtual and augmented reality called mixed reality. Viewers are able to see a virtual image within a physical space, without the need for an intermediary screen, such as a mobile device.
"While virtual reality closes you off from the world, mixed reality is literally blending it in with the real world," Todd Eckert, director of The Life and founder of Tin Drum, told Dezeen.
This enabled visitors to see Abramovi? as if she were actually in the room. "Marina is performing in the same orientation for everybody in the same way. If you are seeing her from the front, someone else is seeing it from the back," said Eckert.
Visitors wear a wearable spatial computing device called a Magic Leap One, which stores the digital recording of Abramovi?
Lasting 19 minutes, the perfor...