Speculative and Critical Design

Mobile VR + Leap Motion

Class projects from Expanded Theatre at CMU Mobile VR + Leap Motion by Vivek Sangubhotla + Judeth Oden Choi A mobile virtual reality tool that allows you to reach into and manipulate a virtual world. By using a Leap Motion as the input for an Android phone, and adding a pair of Go4D c1-glasses, we…

New Puritans

Wearable Tech Design Fiction 2040Targeted advertising and content has become increasingly pervasive, until each moment of our digital lives simultaneously reflects our lives back to us. This constant self-reflection causes many to obsessively curate their lives virtually, materially, economically, spiritually, intellectually, politically and interpersonally. Each moment will be remembered. Each choice becomes your story. To…

Future Generations: a RPG game to explore futures in learning

By Judeth Oden Choi and Jennifer Olsen Download game rule book here. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln Future Generations is a role playing game in which the players collaboratively build a near future world, discover the role of learning…