Planeta Releases Mobile VR Viewer Infinity

By: Oct. 09, 2018
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Planeta Releases Mobile VR Viewer Infinity

NYC product studio Planeta returns with a new addition to Mona - its line of stereoscopic viewers.Infinity is a collaboration with National Design Award recipient Slow and Steady Wins the Race.

To complement Infinity's launch, Planeta has issued a mobile VR version of The Eye Of Modern Mali - the acclaimed retrospective of Malick Sidibé's epochal photographs chronicling the lives and culture of Bamako in the wake of Mali's independence at the turn of the 1950s. The studio created the piece in collaboration with Red Hook Labs and premiered it at the Contemporary African Art Fair in 2017.

This release is timely as mobile VR starts to get interesting with the latest improvements in AR and positional tracking technology. Presenting photography and fine art in a virtual setting redefines how the medium is consumed and considered for both viewer and artist, which is at the core of Planeta's practice.

Infinity's design breaks free from the dull homogeneity of mobile VR viewers. It's compatible with the iPhone 6/6s/7/8 and uses large format plano-convex glass lenses to provide a clear, sharp image. Its structural complexity is hidden within an elegant curvilinear form aimed to serve equally as a simple, efficient way to view VR, stereo and 360º content as it is a beautiful design object. It offers a yin counterpoint to the macho world of VR.

Planeta builds ideas and tools with a focus on sound and music. The studio works in collaboration with artists across virtual and augmented reality platforms, public installations, and speaker technology to present new audio interfaces and interactions. Fields and Drops were released earlier this year, and presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The team is currently building a mobile AR/VR adaptation of David Bowie's globally renowned retrospective, which toured through 12 cities across five years in nine languages. Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (Japan) will release it in collaboration with the David Bowie Archive and theVictoria and Albert Museum in London.

Planeta has also built a number of acclaimed VR pieces, including a retrospective of Roger Ballen's iconic photographic works and a six-story virtual building in collaboration with Snøhettafor an international arts festival. They partnered with GIPHY to build the very first Museum of GIF Art (MoGA), and are working on an interactive music video for "Deck" by Arto Lindsay.

New York-based designer Mary Ping founded Slow and Steady Wins the Race in 2002, following the launch of her eponymous collection in 2001. The work is a continuous investigation into the elements of what people wear, how they wear it, and why. Each collection contains a commentary on the cultural anthropology of modern fashion, focusing on the fundamental characteristics of design within a wardrobe. Ping was inducted into the CFDA in 2007, and is a winner of the Ecco Domani Award and UPS Future of Fashion. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the V&A Museum, The Museum at FIT, the RISD Museum, Deste Foundation, and the Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette.


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