Wednesday, 22 January 2014

EMA's 'Satellites' realizes our dreams of the future with the Kinect and Oculus Rift

EMA's 'Satellites' realizes our dreams of the future with the Kinect and Oculus Rift
Jan 22nd 2014, 17:20, by Jacob Kastrenakes

EMA's latest music video could have been ripped out of 80's dreams of our cyberpunk future, but its reality is a lot closer to our hacked-together, messy present. With an Oculus Rift strapped to her face and a Microsoft Kinect filming her movements, Erika M. Anderson — who performs under the moniker EMA — was able to turn the music video for her single "Satellites" into a modern display of our past's digital dreams.
"All the past 80s ideas of what the future would be [are] always set in a future age, 2013 or something," Anderson tells The Verge. "And it's like: we're here."

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