“Virtual Sureality: VR, AR & mixed-reality from IMC Lab”



Jump Into The Light is proud to host the IMC Lab



Opening Night

June 22nd, 2017 7pm to 11pm



Exhibit duration

Jun 15th to Jul 15th



The IMC Lab is an incubator and media arts lab that makes ground-breaking technologies in virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and data visualization. Based in New York City, IMC has 15 years of experience developing collaboration software and interactive technologies for clients such as Teach for America, United Nations, NY State Senate, Paley Center, Verizon, and NBC. Currently, IMC consults for the White House as co-founder of President Obama's Nation of Maker’s (NoM) initiative to build a national organization of maker spaces across the country. IMC represents media artists, coders, firms, and products such as VR/AR apps and mixed-reality tools enhancing group creativity and envisioning the future of computing, work, and play.



The IMC Lab’s new exhibit at Jump into the Light features cutting edge mixed-reality works by artists and programmers from around the globe, inviting audiences to enter a mind-bending journey throughVR/AR apps, data-driven 3D prints, interactive sculptures, holograms and immersive storytelling platforms. Using new interfaces for the brain, speech, and gesture, networked with the Web, big data sets, mobile apps and smart home/IoT devices, this vision of “group computing” reimagines computers as collaborative spaces, instead of as personal devices. Such spaces can enhance creativity, visualization, learning and play in revolutionary mixed reality experiences. This paradigm shift - of computer as space, as empathy machine, and as creativity catalyst - allows computers to become as invisible as the air we breath, disappearing into the fabric of our clothing, homes, schools and workplaces. These technologies engage groups of people in imagined and real worlds that have the power to expand our understanding of the planet, of each other, of perception and perhaps of consciousness itself.



http://www.theimclab.com/

http://jumpintothelight.com/