\n Horizon is a spherical, immersive feedback system that places a 360\u00b0 camera at the center of a 360\u00b0 projection environment, collapsing capture and display into a single recursive loop. Rather than externalizing volumetric data onto an object, Horizon inverts the model: participants enter the sphere itself, surrounded by a live projection of the space they inhabit, rendered back to them in real time. The room becomes both camera and screen, a continuous boundary where presence is captured, processed, and reprojected onto the same surface from which it originates, producing an inside-out mirror of the immediate present. <\/p>\n
\n Technically, Horizon integrates a central 360\u00b0 camera, real-time equirectangular processing, and spherical projection mapping to create a low-latency feedback environment legible from any position within the room. The camera and projectors occupy the same space, making the system inherently recursive: every element of the room, including the projection hardware itself, enters the image. Conceptually, the work draws on traditions of closed-circuit video installation, cybernetic feedback systems, and the phenomenology of mirrored environments. By collapsing capture and display into a shared physical volume, Horizon proposes a model of spatial media oriented toward recursive self-perception and embodied co-presence. <\/p>\n
\n Horizon sits at the intersection of volumetric capture, spatial computing, and media art practices concerned with shared perception. It draws on precedents such as light-field and volumetric display research, telepresence systems, and projection-based installations that externalize digital environments into physical space. Conceptually, the project aligns with cybernetic art and feedback-oriented systems, where human behavior becomes both input and subject of the work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Horizon argues that spatial computing becomes socially meaningful when volumetric perception is shared through physical artifacts rather than isolated in headsets. By collapsing real-time depth data into a spherical display, it frames collective presence as something publicly encountered and critically legible. Distortion and noise are treated not as errors, but as tools for revealing how sensing systems construct reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis\/archive\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}