Beyond Boundaries: Navigating the Art and Ethics of Hyper-Reality Design
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Beyond Boundaries: Navigating the Art and Ethics of Hyper-Reality Design

ByAurelia O'Neil

If you’ve just lost ability to differentiate between simulated reality and the authentic one, you’ve attained hyperreality, as defined by Jean Baudrillard, and described more recently in Curtis Hickman’s Hyper-Reality: The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences. Hickman, a renowned experience designer and co-founder of The Void, introduces a design framework for the creation of immersive…

MIFF70: Extended reality and storytelling
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MIFF70: Extended reality and storytelling

ByKate Euphemia Clark

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) celebrated its 70th year of operation this year. In recent years, the festival has been expanding to include extended reality (XR) content. This year marked MIFF’s most ambitious XR offering to date, with twelve XR pieces presented both in-person and in a digital recreation of Melbourne’s iconic art-deco Capitol…