BOB Shrine vs EchoVision

BOB Shrine allows you to make offerings to BOB (Bag of Beliefs), an AI-based creature by Ian Cheng. Name your shrine and choose from a growing variety of offerings. Caption your offering with a parental lesson. BOB Shrine will automate the production of your offering into an ongoing pattern of stimuli for BOB to receive. If your BOB Shrine makes enough offerings, maybe one day BOB will visit… BOB Shrine coincides with the United States premiere of BOB at Gladstone Gallery, New York. The first in a new series of artificial lifeforms, BOB takes the form of a chimeric branching serpent. For more information, please visit BOBS.AI

EchoVision is an interactive mixed reality art experience that simulates bat echolocation using custom-designed, handheld, bat-shaped masks based on the open-source HoloKit headset. As users initiate sounds, they experience echolocation—the remarkable navigation method bats employ in darkness—through visual representations of propagating echoes mapped onto the real-world 3D shape of the surrounding environment, scanned in real-time by the LiDAR sensor of a smartphone mounted on the masks. By providing a unique glimpse into how non-human creatures perceive their sensory world, EchoVision promotes an ecocentric design perspective, fostering interspecies understanding and appreciation.