The Immersive Cocoon is a human-sized black sphere that, once you are inside, surrounds you with a 360 degree screen and surround sound. Motion-tracking cameras will follow the movement of your entire body, combining display, sound, and interaction into a full digital experience. NAU is the company that is developing this new technology that intends to revolutionize the way we interact with the world. Rather than experiencing the digital world through our fingers on a mouse and keyboard and our eyes on a screen, this project will allow us to fully experience it as though we are actually walking through it. Inhabiting the same vein as the Wii gaming system and the touch display of the iPhone, the Immersive Cocoon brings us new ways of interacting with technology.
The Immersive Cocoon would also be a great way to interact with virtual spaces, which are already being created by New York architects Asymptote. This firm has already developed the New York Stock Exchange's 3D trading floor as well as a virtual Guggenheim Museum. Rather than having images of artworks viewed online in a thumbnail format, The Guggenheim wanted to try to invent a virtual space that conceptually mirrors the architecture of their New York museum.
Architecture coming together with virtual 3D spaces is a combination that I hope will change the way we experience the internet. I truly would rather look at artwork on websites while experiencing the space of the museum. I cannot wait for the day I can have an Immersive Cocoon in my living room. The level of education of a human being, I believe, when this technology is available to the masses, will rise drastically. People may not enjoy reading a book about the Civil War, but what if they could stand in the middle of it? What if one day, we could experience Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech while virtually standing in the crowd below him?
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