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Universal Assembly Unit has now disassembled (2013-2020). Special thanks to our collaborators and commissioners who have come with us on our journey over the years. Feel free to get in touch about past projects.
Datum Explorer is a multi-platform project which proposes an alternative virtual wilderness that can be experienced in the same meditative mindset as a physical landscape. It took the form of a game app and a site specific installation presented at Datum Festival 2014 and Sonar Festival 2015.
In July 2014 a forest in East Sussex was surveyed using a terrestrial 3D scanner and binaural recording device. This 3D dataset was re-imagined as an exploratory digital landscape - part site survey and part game environment re-animated with ghostly animals. Game engines have the potential for non-linear storytelling and 3d interaction, turning it from being a static archive to a living system.
As part a site specific installation, the point cloud was projection mapped back into its original environment to create an immersive and collective virtual experience fusing nature and data.