The eight-minute demo is followed by a four-minute behind-the-scenes talk by Pascal Langdale (performer, co-writer, producer) and Alison Humphrey (director, co-writer, producer) about The Augmentalist and the 2014 project that informed it, Faster than Night.
This story didn't actually start here, though.
The previous day, our "augmented mentalist" worked his digital psychic mojo one-on-one with any visitor who stopped by our fortune-telling booth on the Expo floor. For more details, see these photos from the expo floor, and this teaser trailer:
And throughout the Expo's last day, leading up to his presentation as the grand finale, The Augmentalist introduced several keynote speakers, starting with the grandfather of VR and AR, Tom Furness:
Followed by renowned science-fiction author David Brin:
And finally Google Project Tango lead Johnny Lee:
Aug-ust company!
The Augmentalist
Presented June 10th
at Augmented World Expo 2015
in Silicon Valley, California.
Performed and co-written by
Pascal Langdale
Directed and co-written by
Alison Humphrey
Facial capture operator
Solène Morvan
Performance capture powered by
Dynamixyz
Facial animation by Centaur Digital and Dynamixyz
Produced by Motives in Movement
in collaboration with Dynamixyz and Augmented World Expo 2015
With development support from
Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH programme
and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council
