Avatar Machine

Avatar Machine is a wearable system that lets users navigate the real world from a third person perspective — like stepping inside a video game. By shifting perspective, it blurs the line between player and person, potentially dulling the user’s
sense of social responsibility and potentially encouraging behaviours usually confined to virtual worlds.

How it works / A wide-angle camera mounted on a body harness captures the user in real time.
The live feed is streamed to a head-mounted display. The effect is real life in third person.
This is genuinely the experience that the user would have.

This version of the
film was produced
for the exhibition
Talk to Me at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.