Noticing Details Along the Path

Peripheral vision is key to human survival. Our complex optical system connects what we see to our response functions in close to real time [c2RT]. A synthetic reflex improves our chances of avoiding threats. Accurately measuring the integrated topology, and thereby gauging the speed-path of the things that move within it, involves visual perception and evolved adjustment of one’s body in relation to the landscape and its other active elements. The image flattens all this and more, compressing the shapely world into a framed instance. Moving images add the illusion of 3D spatial dynamics to the pictorial presentation. The digital image contributes an element ~ the artificial infinite ~ that monkey wrenches the suspension of disbelief in both the movie and the still life. The gear/software/wetware combo of VR unites the matrix of these mode/nodes and wedges them into a track that parallels real life. For obvious reasons this is a risky move. Every moment we are not practicing surviving in the real world, we are lessening our connective capacity to be (t)here, successfully. Finding the real world these days is easier said than done, though.