Mixed Reality
Virtual Wonders
Vision Pro Magic for your event
I use the XR (Extended Reality) headset “Vision Pro” from Apple in a magical way in my show and have created a new branch of magic with it. I combine real effects with virtual elements. This turns digital magic into virtual magic. Things that only I can see through the Vision Pro have an impact on the real world. The audience sees live on a screen behind me what I see in my augmented reality through the headset. For example, a candle can light itself with the help of a lighter in a video call for outsiders. I also appear to be reading the thoughts of my viewers. Spatial computing in conjunction with artificial intelligence will offer unimagined possibilities in the future, for example in the fields of medicine and education.
How does the Apple Vision Pro work?
Anyone wearing the headset first sees reality. However, this is recorded live by cameras and transmitted to small displays in front of your eyes. The slightly offset images on the two displays automatically create a three-dimensional space. Now apps are displayed flat, just like on another mobile device, but floating in space and freely positionable. In other words, you are entering a computer. With apps specially designed for Apple Vision Pro, you can even work on completely three-dimensional objects or swap reality for a virtual environment.
Thoughts from my show
Many innovations have come about through play: Most successful Internet entrepreneurs were enthusiastic about computer games in their youth, hacked software and explored all facets of the Internet with a tinkering and pioneering spirit before coming up with brilliant ideas. Mixed, extended, augmented and virtual reality, the metaverse and spatial computing with the Vision Pro are good examples of technologies that we tend to smile about at the moment. Until now, headsets for these applications have mainly been used for games and make you look rather strange in everyday life. But only three decades ago, when the first computers found their way into offices, people wondered whether they should really spend the whole day sitting on a desk chair “staring into a box”. Apart from the three-dimensional benefits, wouldn’t it also be much healthier to stand with the headsets or move around the room?
On the left you can see the perspective of an outsider: I am wearing an XR headset and interacting with objects and people that are invisible from the outside.
On the right you can see my view through the glasses with the virtual overlays. These and reality together create new magical effects!
Mind Reading
Interaction during the show
During my show with the Vision Pro, I seem to be reading the thoughts of my audience. They are displayed as augmented reality in my glasses. But each individual in the audience can also read thoughts interactively with a variant of the headset …
… via a QR code that is shown during my show, every viewer can use their smartphone camera to make it look like they have Apple’s Vision Pro on. And then suddenly everyone can see a word that another viewer has only thought of!
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