OP_ERA: Hyperviews

OP_ERA ist an immersive and interactive interface designed for multisensorial experimentation of space concepts. Conceived as a virtual reality environment, this project focuses on research and development of scientific and artistic models of space, human-machine interfaces specially designed for environments where a human agent and artificial engine are symbiotically interconnected, and alternative ways of spatial perception and cognition. OP_ERA brings up an old problem of human-machine interfaces. How and through what kind of interfaces one system may best interact with another? Or throug what kind of interfaces may we enter a data world without being disturbed ba unnatural (weird) devices? Inspired by such questions the project is beeing developed since 1999. OP_ERA stands for a world, shaped as a set of interconnected logical dimensions. The dimensions were conceived to generate spatial cognition through multisensoral experimentation of space models that evolve in relation to human body.

OP_ERA Hyperviews was developed to be an immersive installation, in which flashes of light were synchronized as to simulate the unfolding of a 4D cube (hypercube). The visual interface is specially built into a dark 3x3x3m cube. In 5 of the walls of this cube, an automated system triggers synchronized flashes of light that represent temporal projections of the vertexes of a 4D object (hybercube). These visual stimuli are designed to produce post-image effects in the users. The immersion lasts for 1 minute 10 s. The Hyperview-interface is a by-product of the major project OP_ERA.
(D. Kutschat) r project OP_ERA.