The Seventh Ray: A Mixed Reality initiation experience

Abstract

‘Seventh Ray’ is a Mixed Reality (MR) platform inspired by Mystery School initiation techniques of the ancient world. The platform employs the latest in perceptual and sensory augmentation technologies to explore the meaning and modern day significance of these ancient ceremonies. The historic texts provide a formula and the new technologies provide the tools to revive these rites into previously unimaginable formulations. The Seventh Ray seeks to explore the combined power of drama with the particular state of awareness one feels when they fully inhabit a mixed reality. Might the MR brain exhibit closer parallels with the ‘book reading brain’ than that of the ‘movie watching’ one? The ancient texts give us a formula; the emerging technologies of VR and AR give us the tools to revive these ancient rites into unimaginable dimensions.

Affiliations

Director, Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC)

Principle Research Fellow, Ravensbourne, London, UK

The Explorers Club

St Leonards on Sea

East Sussex

UK

Contributors

Carl H. Smith

Sarah Janes

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 339-345

ID: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.65

Copyright statement: © Smith et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2018, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Product Information: 1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing