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”How bizarre it would be to conceive of an I without an us

Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia 2007

Embodied Virtual Reality system designed to experience the world from another person's perspective

The Machine To Be Another is a performance installation. It facilitates the immersive experience of a body swap between two persons in real-time by combining neuroscientific research insights, performance art and Virtual Reality technology. BeAnotherLab enables this form of embodied perspective-taking to stimulate dialogue across differences for pro-social behaviour and mutual understanding.

GENDER SWAP - BODY SWAP

EMBODIED NARRATIVES

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Embodied virtual reality system designed to experience the world from the perspective of another.

It works as an open platform to co-design immersive experiences that promote somatic and verbal dialogue deriving in pro-social behavior.

GENDER SWAP - BODY SWAP

EMBODIED NARRATIVES

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Immersive Documentary Film-Making for Embodied Storytelling

The Library of Ourselves uses Virtual Reality in its cinematic capacity. The technology enables the recording of 360° films from the first-person perspective of the storyteller, and the audience's experience of these cinematic worlds in an embodied, multisensory manner. The Library of Ourselves has evolved into a distributed VR film archive that can be experienced in our Social VR Stations, hosted by diverse institutions around the world.

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Immersive Documentary Film-Making for an Archive of Embodied Narratives

Library of Ourselves is an interdisciplinary and distributed project to create transformative encounters between communities in conflict.

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Press and Testimonials

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This was super realistic and even meditative... It brings you to a higher level of awareness in interaction with yourself and others

Tobi & Aron
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Strange Surreal Spectacular!

Robert
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Perhaps this sort of exercise can help us to understand others in the world around us.

Maha
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I felt like I was in a sci-fi movie. As if my soul had left my body and tried to connect with it. It didn’t feel like a dream, I was aware and clear. It was something else, something exciting, something awesome

Adam
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Meeting myself never felt so strange. More body swaps, please!

Erik
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I never met myself in this way. It was a fantastic experience and I loved it. Thank you so much!

Anna
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Thanks! I always wanted to be another and you made it possible. Amazing!

Taavi
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Interpersonal-underwater-out of space-dolphin-dance-experience! We loved it!

Mana & Michael
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It was amazing to be both. Thanks for a mind-altering experience.

Rana
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A unique and insightful experience, allowing us to experience living in another body using the current technology we have today. It was dreamlike to experience something like this!

Stitch
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Meditation complete! Weirdly pleasurable being removed from yourself, even for that little while. Like floating in space

Nils & Elsa
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One of the most amazing things I have experienced! Wow!

Neblina
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I really enjoyed the experience. Perhaps this sort of exercise can help us to understand others in the world around us.

Maha
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It was a really unique and insightful experience, allowing us to experience living in another body using the current technology we have today. It was really dreamlike to experience something like this for once!

Stitch
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It's excellent. Magic. Really interesting to see another myself!

Zhu Xiao Lan
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It was super realistic and even meditative... Brings you to a higher level of awareness in interaction with yourself and others.

Tobi & Aron
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ViktoriaIt was beautiful! Just so beautiful!
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Wow!

Diotima
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