On the physical experience of a virtual space

摘要

Virtual reality challenges our previous way of understanding things. It suggests that there is more behind a physical object than was initially supposed - or indeed that it can become something completely different. Alongside the familiar physical spaces, ad-vances in technology have added virtual spac-es that are in no way inferior to their analo-gous predecessors in terms of the level of detail and complexity. However, the technology of virtual reality headsets only allows for audio-visual stimuli from the other world. A collective of young architecture graduates in London and Amsterdam is currently research-ing how to expand this experience through the sense of touch. The team of "soft bodies" -consisting of Paula Strunden, John Cruwys and David Flook - aims at making physical space tangible through physical objects, there-by reconnecting with the real environment.