Happy Holidays 2022/2023

I wish you a wonderful end-of-year season and a good start into the new year. This year we Iaunched a Metaverse Lab with Weblaw. Fittingly, we present our holiday greetings in augmented reality art (ARt). I had the pleasure to created an unconventional Christmas card together with Jamie F.G. Perhaps it will allow you to experience Augmented Reality (AR) for the first time?

White Christmas and Christmas lights guaranteed

The original Christmas greetings awaken the anticipation of Christmas in children and families - with everything that goes with it. Sarah Montani X Jamie F.G create the right mood with their art installation - just as we nostalgically imagine it: a snow figure covered in white snow like from a storybook with glittering fresh snow falling from the sky. But not printed on a card, but almost alive thanks to Augmented Reality (AR).

"We are united by the desire for a white Christmas," says Sarah Montani. "When we see snow, we feel like reaching into the white splendor, experiencing it physically, even biting into it - in any case, experiencing it with all our senses," says Sarah Montani. This installation is not touchable, however, because it was created with AR; in this Augmented Reality, we do not (yet) have a sense of touch or smell. The spherical snow figure "appears" in our usual physical environment, but remains invisible to our eyes.

We can only perceive it through the eye of our smartphone camera. AR art is three-dimensional, intangible and weightless. It can be visualized in any place: on the water, among the clouds, in fragrant treetops. With two fingers, the artworks can be enlarged, we can even walk into the snowman or take him to any place.

Dark city centers, chilly offices, uncomfortable room temperatures: at Christmas, it threatens to stay darker than usual in Switzerland and Europe in 2022. The possible shortage of electricity demands savings measures from everyone. In public spaces, the abandonment of lighting is likely to be particularly visible. This inspired the artist to place the snowman under light bulbs. A scene that is rather unlikely in reality in this form. The metaverse creates fantastic new realities.

We invite you to explore the perception of reality in a new way. All we need is a smartphone - and the curiosity to engage in unfamiliar experiences such as the merging of analog and digital worlds. Its light bulbs in the snowflakes, thanks to augmented reality. Thomas Alva Edison would certainly have liked the idea - we hope you do too?

With kind regards

Sarah Montani

This is how you can display the snowman at your place - smartphone and daylight provided: scan QR code - click [AR] button below the snowman on the right.

EXPLORATORY FILM here: How to visualize the metaspheres

Metaverse Lab of Weblaw AG , which among other things offers taster courses in metaverse