Kleiber AR Gallery vs FungiSync

Experience an Augmented Reality art gallery, wherever you are. The Kleiber AR Gallery app showcases the captivating paintings of Northern Michigan artist, George Kleiber. In this interactive, augmented reality art gallery format, users are immersed in virtual exhibits and can walk right up to the artwork on display. Featuring 10 Augmented Reality art exhibits and containing over 60 paintings from George Kleiber's collection in high-definition, explore each unique exhibit experience and examine every painting up close - just as if you were out at a gallery. When you enter each exhibit, you are immediately surrounded by paintings to explore and walk around. By tapping any of the paintings, you can get more information about them and even inquire about contacting the artist. The Kleiber AR Gallery brings the experience of an in-person art gallery directly to you. To optimize your experience, use this app in a setting where you have plenty of safe space to move around. George Kleiber's artwork is on display in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia - with one work in the Guggenheim Museum. George hopes you enjoy his writing on moments in life and free ranging art that utilizes multiple mediums.

*Device Compatibility: iPhone Pro (LiDAR-enabled) is required for this mixed reality app. *For the collocated multiplayer "handshake" experience: All phones need to be connected to the same home Wi-Fi 6 router. Set up the IP address of the server iPhone as the host IP address for both phones (IP address can be obtained in the Wi-Fi information on the phone). When connected, use the QR code image in the preview to anchor the location of all phones. Don't move the QR code during the experience session. The QR anchor code performs best at the size of 15x15cm. Project introduction: This app serves for the mixed reality participatory ritual artwork "FungiSync" first presented at DevCon 2024. In this experience, participants wear handheld, masquerade-style mushroom-decorated mixed reality masks. Each mask embodies a unique, psychedelic-like augmented view—a metaphor for technology-mediated pluriversal worldviews. Through handshakes, our most ancient protocol, participants sync, blend, and exchange distinct perspectives in mixed reality, mirroring the underground resource exchange of mycorrhizal networks' "Wood Wide Web." This artwork highlights how decentralized technology, such as Ethereum networks, can play a role in interweaving our increasingly fragmented world accelerated by centralized institutions' controlled ideology and technology. Utilizing HoloKit to transfer the iPhone into an immersive MR headset, this art experience brings actor-network theory to life through embodied experience, celebrating the interdependent collaboration of infinite worlds bonded by a decentralized web. It fosters a mycological-inspired entanglement awareness in today's deglobalizing world. Let's celebrate Mycopunks!