Fall 2001
Invis-O-Vision
In collaboration with Todd Holoubek, Raina Kumra, and Angelo Flores
Invis-O-Vision is a tool that could provide the Whitney Museum of American Art with a way to present visitors with an additional layer of information in a way that is not obtrusive to the other visitors.
They currently offer audio tours, but these tend to isolate the viewer and place them in their own world. Invis-O-Vision is a video tour. As you enter the museum you are presented with a pair of Invis-O-Vision glasses. When you approach a work of art and and you would like to see more information you simply wear the glasses. Then suddenly the light on the wall next to the piece reveals additional content about the work.
The white wash seen without the glasses is a combination of both positive and negative imagery. Together they are seen as white light. Peering though the glasses the negative image is filtered out and the positive full color, full motion video image image is revealed.
I created a second version which uses a compatible shutter glass technology which offers multiple channels of content. When these glasses are worn you see one of several channels of content. This could be a chosen language or content tailored to a specific audience such as children or docets in training. For our prototype I created English and Spanish versions.
The final version could offer four or more channels.With a more complex version of the glasses as many as four channels of information could be presented. (I can’t go in to too much technical detail for intellectual property reasons.) However 3 out of 4 people who tried on the glasses literally said, “Wow!”... I have it all on tape.
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