METAVERSE MAKEOVERS (LIVE)

In The Portals
Multiplayer Manicures

Metaverse Makeovers (LIVE) is a transmedia appstravaganza experienced as virtual manicures and mixed reality beauty treatments re-purposed for ISEA 2013 in nail parlour salons in Darwin and Sydney. Metaverse Makeovers is a cross-cultural, transnational, inter-disciplinary team of specialists fusing knowledge of emerging technologies and Augmented Reality (AR), app development and user experience design, to deliver social and immersive mobile experiences.

The Metaverse team set up in Darwin and Sydney, restyling nails by ‘Hologram Hostesses’, with demonstrations of the Metaverse Nails appcessory – wearable augmented reality nail accessories that interacts with a companion game app. The Metaverse Nails appcessories were applied by the Hologram Hostesses and played out as intimate, tactile, face-to-face encounters between audiences/participants and nail technicians/Metaverse world.

Dazzling 3D virtual nail bling designs illuminate participants’ fingers, and are simulcast to mobile devices, large public screens, and online in a shimmering televisual display. Metaverse Makeovers (LIVE) ask you to become part of a new world, where techno beauty, AR digital cosmetics, future-forward appcessory products, and community performance converge.

CREDITS

Thea Baumann (VIC/Shanghai)
Ben Ferns (VIC)
Shian Law (VIC)

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