The perception of the word place may vary from person to person. To me a place is always connected to the emotions i experienced which makes it a memorable experience.
During last meeting with Asad Khan, we discussed various ideas of how we could make an interesting immersive experience installation with the help of Lidar Scanner.
As we are a group with different cultural background, we wanted to take advantage of it. As we discussed an thought that i had in my mind a few days back popped in my head. A place can be used differently in different cultural background and the people, culture and emotions give the place a whole different meaning. For example, while i was walking through the meadows, I imagined how the whole place of meadows could be changed if it were placed back in my home town in India. It would had a very different use and feel to what it has over here. So the various cultural uses of the places could be captured to show how a same place can give a different feel and emotion. As Ming Du suggested, adding user interaction to this could keep the audience engaging and interested to test out different combinations which would provide a different feel every different time.
Another thought that popped in my head was could lidar scanned images be perceived in 3-dimention with stacking up various 2d images in the room , making us feel like we are walking into the actual place. The manipulation of shadows was also something that caught my mind when the nature of 3-dimension comes into play. The shadows give depth to what we perceive. But can this be manipulated by us into looking differently or being differently by different people? Capturing actual images and then mixing it with only shadows that are captured could give us a totally different feel. The whole viewpoint of an object and a manipulated shadow could cloud the image of the actual object in our mind. Could this be something that we can play with and manipulated? Also as Qinglig suggested, we could not only use the scanned images, but also mix the experience with real time objects which would give a different feel to the whole experience.
Combining these aspects with various sound interventions could alter our perception of an object which could be interesting as it is not something that can be captured by the naked eyes. Image manipulation could be perceived by different people by different methods.
