VR
Replaces reality
You are taken
into another world.
The original
world disappears.
A new relationship with reality
RM
Reality Modulation
VR replaces.AR adds.RM transforms.
The world around you is real.
The people are real. The place is real. The moment is real.
Reality Modulation transforms how you experience it.
- The people are real.
- The place is real.
- The moment is real.
Only the experience
has changed.
This is
Reality Modulation.
AR
Adds to reality
Digital content
enters the real world.
The world stays
the same.
RM
Transforms reality
The real world
remains, but how
you experience it
changes completely.
Three relationships with reality. One new category.
03What is Reality Modulation?
“Reality Modulation is the real-time transformation of how a live physical environment is visually experienced while the underlying real-world scene remains present.”
Real-time
Computational
Physical world
Perceptual transformation
Scene preservation
We propose Reality Modulation as a distinct contemporary category for the real-time transformation of the experienced physical world. It sits within a broader history of research spanning mediated reality, computer vision, display technology, augmented reality, wearable computing and perceptual systems.
The four realities of Reality Modulation
Four ways to experience the world you are already in.
01
Spectral Reality
Color / Light / Visual energy
Color was never the limit.
See familiar places through entirely different relationships of color, light and visual energy. A beach in electric cyan. A sunset pushed past its natural boundaries. Same world, a different spectrum of experience.
02
Temporal Reality
Motion / Change / Time
Reality does not have to look the same from one moment to the next.
Experience movement, rhythm and change as part of perception itself. Motion becomes expressive, environments evolve, and time becomes part of the visual language.
03
Reactive Reality
Rhythm / Response / Context
Reality responds.
What you see can change with the moment. A room grows more vivid as the energy in it rises. A concert answers the crowd. Live experiences that feel responsive rather than static.
04
Perceptual Reality
Pattern / Emphasis / Experience
The scene is real. The perception is transformed.
The physical world can remain unchanged while the experience of seeing it changes completely. Patterns come forward, relationships become visible, and familiar places feel unfamiliar again.
The world is the content
The world is
the content.
Same world.
A completely different way to experience it.
Seeing the unseen.
It’s always been there.
05More than a filter
A conventional photo filter modifies a captured image.
Reality Modulation can operate continuously on a live physical environment, changing visual perception as the environment changes.
Live
Real-time
Interactive
Environment-aware
Wearable
Capturable
The camera is the beginning.
The wearable changes the experience.
The path forward
01
First
you hold it.
Mobile
Reality Modulation begins today, through software, on a device you already carry.
02
Next
you wear it.
Wearable — design concept
From something you hold up to something you simply see through.
03
Eventually
you simply look.
Ambient experience
A transformed way of seeing that is continuously, quietly present.
MobileWearableAmbient experience
The category already has instances
Reality has more
than one look.
One physical scene can support countless visual experiences. These are three of them, running today in RM Lens.
Flora
Find the living things.
Perceptual Reality
Living foliage separates from everything around it and burns in false-colour crimson, breathing slowly, while the rest of the world cools to steel and cyan.
A visualisation of the energy plants give back — not an infrared photograph.
Fauna
Find the warm bodies.
Spectral Reality
Living bodies lift out of a cold blue world and burn through the ironbow ramp thermal imagers use, trailing a halo of warmth.
A visualisation of a living subject — not a temperature reading.
Precog
See where they're about to be.
Temporal Reality
People and animals throw luminous echoes of themselves along the path they are travelling — the next second of their motion, drawn a beat before they get there.
Extrapolation from real motion — it continues the present, it does not know the future.
09RM Lens — the flagship RM wearable
RM Lens
RM Lens is the flagship wearable — Reality Modulation eyewear — and its companion software, being built around Reality Modulation. Its first edition is RM Lens Ravium™: Ravium names the perceptual state created when Reality Modulation reveals information, structure, color, motion and phenomena beyond ordinary human vision — the visible expression of the unseen. A brand idea, not a scientific classification.
Today
RM Lens mobile software brings live RM-style transformation to the phone through real-time camera experiences, photography, and video.
Next
RM Lens Ravium™ — the first RM Lens edition — is intended to move the experience from the screen in your hand toward continuous visual perception.
Future
An RM ecosystem of modulation modes, creators, places, events, and experiences.
AI can generate another world.
VR can take you into another world.
AR can add digital things to this world.
RM starts with the world that is already here.
The people are real.
The place is real.
The moment is real.
The world remains real.
Only your experience of it changes.
Reality.
Modulated.
Follow the development of Reality Modulation
RM white paper — coming soon