#figmin xr as a software has already made into into a big facebook article but people deserve to hear about it from his words i think

[aurosoul]

I finally met the founders of Figmin XR in person!!!!!! 💖💖💖

their names are Astra and Javier, they are a husband & wife duo, and their home is JUST as magical and tech-filled as you would expect from the creators of a futuristic, hologram-based sandbox application. every room was a mix of nature, technology, and childlike wonder. (they are also parents, and their kids use XR sometimes too!)

I got to try basically every cutting-edge XR headset that exists during my visit, and witnessed two of the most reality-breaking things my brain has ever been faced with:

1. with both of us wearing augmented reality headsets, Javier (pictured center in the first photo) pulled an animated gif out of thin air and handed it to me - just with bare hands. no controllers required. it was BEYOND surreal to be physically HOLDING a GIF. a GIF!!!!!!!!!!

and 2. I got to use ‘spatial mapping’ (AKA room scanning) in-headset. depth-sensing lasers & cameras around my eyes scanned the topography of everything I looked at, overlaying a green Matrix-style pattern onto everything in my field of view. I felt like a human scanner, and once the scan was complete I could project SHADOWS from virtual objects onto every real surface around me.

I spawned in an adorable virtual giraffe toy, and it was extremely brain-breaking to have a virtual object cast perfect shadows onto a wall, or a couch, or an end table, IN REAL TIME as I was moving it around. with shadows added, my brain fully accepted that the giraffe was a real object physically in the room with me.

ANYWAYS it was wonderful seeing all this cutting-edge tech used specifically for PLAY - and education, and accessibility, and bringing people together IRL, and paying artists, and assisting with everyday tasks, and just....... MORE good things! Figmin XR is built with such an optimistic view of the future, and it is forever going to be an honor that I get to contribute to it in such a significant way.

the future is not all bad. there are plenty of good things still happening, and being created, and yet to exist!!!

#incessant meowing #long post #me #picture journal #also SHOUTOUT TO MY SIBLING FOR TAKING THIS PIC HEHE #i brought them along just for fun and we became the first two artists to ever use figminxr room-scale multiplayer together in the same room #just casual historic tech moments happening willy nilly....... no big deal #anyways i am rambling as usual but i'm just EXCITED!!!!! #i have HOPE for the FUTURE and feel grateful that i'm working with people who have heartfelt goals! and who aren't in tech for the money!! #we are trying to get facebook/meta to sponsor our residency program #and i am REALLY hoping they say yes because i would love to take facebook's money and give it to under-represented artists #the next artist resident i hope to choose is a children's media author who also works in vr :) her work is kind and inspiring #anyways god these people need to have articles written about them. javier especially #figmin xr as a software has already made into into a big facebook article but people deserve to hear about it from his words i think #his life story is fascinating and it felt like being at a ted talk listening to him talk #they deserve all the success they've achieved so far AND MORE