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Like a GIF animation, artist Julian Oliver’s augmented reality game levelHead is meant to be played forever.
The game uses a strategically placed digital camera, three plastic cubes with unique markers, and some fancy computer software to create Escher-like mazes you must guide a person through different doors by tilting a block. Some of the doors lead to other rooms located on the same cube. The objective is to find the right door that leads the character from one plastic cube to another.
“Navigating in the real world increasingly tends toward dependence on external media and locative technologies, remembering not just places but even describing vectors of movement and spatial associations for us,” Oliver writes on his blog, describing the conceptual basis behind the game. “Only one side of the cube will reveal a room at any given time and so a memory of the last room – of the positions of entrances and exits, stairs and other features – is necessary in order to build a logic of safe forward movement.” (Chances are you might be still confused. The video below shows the game in action.)
Since the game was launched in 2008, it has received four different awards and been called “the 21st century Rubik’s Cube for kids worldwide,” by Ubergizmo.
The following GIF of the three levelHead cubes was posted by prosthetic knowledge Wednesday and has collected more than 1,300 notes.
