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DE; Interactive Web-XR Experience, Design for Good, Climate Awareness, Haptic, Social Impact
“In Arm’s Reach” merges mixed reality with environmental awareness, transforming a simple touch on a wall into a portal to witness the impacts of climate change. The immersive experience takes users from urban to natural environments, bringing ocean pollution, rising sea levels and wildfires into the user’s living room or exhibition space to inspire empathy and collective action. Haptic feedback and real-world wall interactions are central, allowing users to physically engage with digital overlays depicting environmental scenarios.
WHEN:
30 NOV (SATURDAY): 10:00-14:00, 15:30-17:00
1 DEC (SUNDAY): 10:00-14:00, 15:30-17:00
WHERE: PSNC Future Labs
Image credits: Prefrontal Cortex
Katja Rempel is an interaction designer specializing in VR, AR, and interaction design. She works at the prefrontal cortex in Halle, where she develops projects at the intersection of technology and design. She co-founded the collective “kollektiv generativ” where she explores creative coding and generative design through playful and experimental approaches and offers courses for creative coding, augmented reality, and embodied interaction.
Felix Herbst is a designer and developer of interactive experiences. He’s the co-founder of Needle and prefrontal cortex, tackling realtime 3D projects from both the workflow/tooling and production perspectives for around 15 years. User experience, XR and 3D graphics pipelines are his favorite areas, combining art, design and development into unique things that move, delight and just work. Felix is a regular contributor to open-source projects such as three.js, UnityGLTF, MaterialX and OpenUSD.
Afrida Mehzabin – 3D Artist, Katja Rempel – Concept & Interaction Design, Zack Wang – Sound Designer, Julian Hoffmann Anton – – 3D Artist, Felix Herbst – Concept & Development. Partners & Support: prefrontal cortex (https://prefrontalcortex.de/) needle.tools (https://needle.tools/).
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Registration opens on November 20th for all events, which are free of charge. Open Call Deadline: November 24th (23:59, CET).
