Looking Outwards 8

Mike Tucker is the Interactive Director at Magic Leap, a company that focuses on Mixed Reality and Spatial computing. Before he started at Magic Leap, Mike was the Interactive Director at Universal Everything, where he created his most famous project. One that I will touch on later as one of the works I admire most from him. Before he launched his career as a designer/developer, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he received a BFA in Graphic Design.

The reason why I chose to highlight Mike Tucker and Magic Leap’s work is that interactive art is amazing already, but it just becomes even more captivating when it is immersive and interactive. The projects he describes in the presentation show the prototypes where the art work changes at the literal touch of your fingertips. This leads me to what I admired about how he presented his work. Such complex technologies are difficult to explain, but I found it easy to follow along since he showed so many graphics and “behind the scenes” work. He gave us a glimpse into every step in the process which I hope to try implementing in the future when describing my own work.

Now to discuss Mike Tucker’s art installation in San Francisco, the infinity room. It’s something that I’ve seen a lot on social media but finally being able to see the purpose behind it was amazing. The Microsoft Infinity Room was created as a visualization of big data as explained by a quarter. We have worked on projects that touch on data visualization so I found the room to be such a fascinating way of presenting complex data.