I am trying to work out details of a mixed reality tabletop set-up that I’m designing. As part of that process, I am building a version of it as a 3D model on my computer.
Today I found myself looking at items in the real world, and creating rough models of those same objects in the virtual world. I’m not trying to replicate reality here — I’m just trying to represent parts of it as simple proxies.
There is a kind of head-spinning hall of mirrors aspect to this process. I am looking at my laptop screen while typing on it to create a version of the very screen and keyboard that I am looking at, and even of the table that my laptop computer is sitting on.
At some point in this hall of mirrors the real and the virtual can start to get all jumbled up in my mind. I’m not sure that this is entirely a bad thing — maybe it just means that it’s all working.