The Fun Palace (A Carnival of Mixed Realities) is a curated location-specific mixed reality event consisting of several interactive prototypes that propose new audience interactions with emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR). The Fun Palace is a provocative reinvention of the low fidelity sketches of Cedric Price (1964) and others, drawing from the field of Cybernetics.

Produced in association with The Centre for Digital Media and UBC Theatre and Film. Mastermind credit given to Patrick Pennefather.

Research Creation Project.
Mentored a 6 person team of Master’s students at the Centre for Digital Media to prototype an Augmented Reality (AR) application. StageAR offers a scenic designer the opportunity to show a life-sized AR walkthrough of a set design in a fast and cost-effective way. This is a short demonstration of the AR prototype that the MDM team created for UBC Theatre & Film , as part of the xR Prototyping Lab at the Centre for Digital Media. During a 10 day sprint the team created a tool/app for set designers that allowed them to easily pre-visualise set designs using augmented reality for immediate feedback and collaboration. The MDM Program’s xR Prototyping lab is intended to support projects and partnerships with developers categorizing themselves within the xR umbrella. The prototyping lab is dedicated to creating an adaptive xR prototyping pipeline. The xR Prototyping Lab is, in itself, a working prototype, intended to align research interests with other companies. You can learn more about the xR Prototyping Lab here: https://thecdm.ca/news/xr-prototyping-lab xR Team: Andy Yao, Manni Zhang, Nick Kubash, Samantha Yueh, Seán Conroy, Thalita Karina and Viet Phan Supervised by: Patrick Pennefather