This Mixed Reality Meal Combines Food And VR - VRScout

A delicious repast that pairs beautifully with immersive technology.

This past week, Italian creator Mattia Casalegno debuted his latest thought-provoking installation, Aerobanquets RMX, astatine Miami Art Week successful Miami, Florida. The multisensory acquisition combined VR exertion with delicious nutrient to present a mixed world repast rather dissimilar thing we’ve seen before.

Inspired by F. T. Marinetti’s The Futurist Cookbook, a postulation of fictional recipes from the future, the installation supported up to 16 guests astatine a time, each of whom donned a Meta Quest 2 VR headset equipped with an outer hand-tracker. Throughout the unsocial gastronomy experience, guests dined connected 5 to 7 dishes prepared by Michelin-starred, James Beard Award-winning cook Chintan Pandya.

Guests could take from 2 menus: regular and vegan. As they ate, the textures and flavors of each crockery were rendered successful VR. The acquisition besides featured substance brought to beingness by narration from Top Chef justice Gail Simmons.

“We presently unrecorded successful a satellite wherever concern farming, overfishing, chemic pollution, and ungraded degradation are jeopardizing the livelihoods of millions by depleting the environment,” said Casalegno connected his website. “We unrecorded successful a civilization wherever velocity and economics travel earlier wellness and quality. With this enactment I privation to enactment a spotlight connected our endangering practices and astatine the aforesaid clip relish the joyousness of eating.”

As you tin spot successful the video provided, Casalegno developed a customized accessory that turns Meta’s Touch controllers into futuristic dishware. This was astir apt done to supply a elemental and convenient mode for guests to way the determination of their meals successful VR. That said, the last merchandise looks incredibly cool.

For much accusation astir Aerobanquets RMX sojourn here.

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