[FAMILY]TECH – Augmented Reality / Nocturnal Selfportrait

This workshop’s goal is to create an avatar as an augmented reality face filter, then bring it to life in photos, or in a short video. This workshop is aimed at children from the age of 6, accompanied by at least an adult. It was open to anyone fulfilling this requirement, and up to 16 participants.

We used computers in order to use Photopea, an online image editor, in which we used the face mesh references distributed by Meta on their website. The idea was to draw the avatar’s face using this face mesh as reference. We also used Meta Spark Studio and Meta Spark Player, two softwares developed by Meta and used to create unique augmented reality content. We then imported the avatar that participants created on a face mesh to create the filter.

This 2-hour long workshop was conducted by our cultural and digital mediators on a few Saturdays in Marseille, in our MEDIALAB, a multimedia laboratory for experimentation and democratization of digital, artistic and cultural practices located in la Friche la Belle de Mai.

This workshop is part of a program called [FAMILY]TECH, a free activity for families that takes place every Saturday afternoon from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. This workshop was very well received by the public as a way to address the way we use filters and social media, and as a way to create digital art in a fun, playful way.

Date

11/02/2023, 25/03/2023 and 01/07/2023

Number of participants

Reached target groups (students, academia, economy, civil society)

Families

Hosting partner

Chroniques

Recent XR content

Artistic event

IMMERSITY 2024

The 7th edition of Immersity took place on 27 and 28 March 2024 and brought together in Angoulême, at the invitation of the Pôle Image Magelis, all the professionals exploring new forms of immersive storytelling. Writers, directors, technicians and producers came together for case studies and conferences.

Workshop

An accessible VR experience: promoting good practice, from creation to mediation

Virtual Reality experiences are proliferating in cultural venues – festivals, museums, cinemas – offering a growing diversity of content and ways of experiencing these moments spent with a headset on. The medium is evolving rapidly, and both creators and distributors are still lacking the codes to make VR experiences accessible to as many people as possible, and to make them easier to use so that users can enjoy experiences in the best possible conditions.

Artistic event

L.E.V. FESTIVAL COMPLETES ITS LINE-UP WITH VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCES, AND A YOUTH WORKSHOP ON MUSICAL CREATION IN THE METAVERSE

L.E.V. Festival (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual), after revealing the line-up of live shows and audiovisual & performative installations, announces the rest of activities for its 18th edition: four experiences around extended realities, in a collaboration with Realities in Transition, which include the two VR works Red Tail and Uncanny Alley; the AR experience Slow Walker, and a workshop for teenagers about Metaverses and musical creation with PatchXR.

Resource

Talk – “Mediation in XR: the importance of empathy”

Michele Ziegler, who holds the position of Chief Digital Officer and Director of the NewImages festival, discusses the crucial subject of empathy and inclusiveness in programming and in interaction with the public.