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The category

RM

Reality Modulation transforms the world you are already standing in.

01Three relationships with reality

Three technologies. Three fundamentally different relationships with the physical world.

  • AR

    Augmented Reality

    AR adds to reality.

    Digital elements are placed into the user's view. Reality becomes a backdrop.

  • VR

    Virtual Reality

    VR replaces reality.

    The physical visual environment is substituted entirely. Reality is removed.

  • RM

    Reality Modulation

    RM transforms reality.

    The physical environment remains the source. What changes is how it is visually experienced.

Reality remains the source. RM changes how it is perceived.

02What Reality Modulation is

Reality Modulation is the real-time transformation of the perceptual characteristics of a live physical environment, while preserving the underlying real-world scene.

It can reveal, amplify, reinterpret, recolor, emphasise, transform or expose patterns, light, relationships, movement, structure and visual information that is already present in the environment.

What it does not do is insert objects that were never there. A modulated street is still that street. A modulated shoreline is still that shoreline. The information was always present — ordinary vision simply does not report all of it.

03The same place, twice

One shoreline, carrying both accounts at once.

A single continuous shoreline: the left half in natural sunset light, the right half fully modulated into cyan, violet and magenta, divided by a vertical line of light

Left — source environment

Real light, real water, real geography. This is the input, and it never stops being the input.

Right — modulated experience

Nothing has been added to the scene. No object has been inserted. Colour, contrast and luminance relationships already carried in the light have been transformed.

04Across environments

City, forest, water, street.

Different environments carry different kinds of visual information. What modulation surfaces depends on what is actually there.

  • A rain-slicked city street at night, its stone facades and wet road transformed into electric violet, magenta and cyan light

    City

    Ordinary streets. Impossible color.

  • An old-growth forest where golden shafts of light fall through the canopy and violet luminescence traces the trunks and branches

    Forest

    Patterns that were always there become impossible to ignore.

  • A packed concert venue with hands raised, the air filled with sweeping cyan and magenta waveforms of light

    Live

    See sound, energy and movement transform the space around you.

  • A palm-lined shoreline at sunset, one half in natural golden light and the other transformed into cyan, violet and magenta, split by a vertical line of light

    Coast

    Same ocean. Another way to experience it.

Reality Modulation is presented here as a proposed category framework for a class of real-time perceptual technologies. Related research exists across mediated reality, computer vision, image processing, augmented reality and wearable displays. VibraGlass is developing consumer software and wearable technology centred on this category.

The flagship is VibraRays.

Reality Modulation becomes continuous when you stop holding it and start wearing it.

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