“Móta” Light-Based Interface



MÓTA GIVES ‘PHYSICAL’ PROPERTIES TO LIGHT TO ENABLE TANGIBLE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL WORLDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY.

Despite technology becoming increasingly dematerialised we are still tied to physical interfaces that control it.

Imagine if you could hold a pool of light of in your hand. Móta gives ‘physical’ properties to grains of light to create a volumetric display controlled by gesture.

Móta creates the appearance of a 3D cloud of light particles on a 2D surface. It invites us to interact with the cloud as if each light particle possessed physical form. The physicality of the particles interacts with our own physicality to create a real and intuitive form of interaction.

This inherently non-binary interaction proposes a new language for communication between the physical and digital worlds with many potential applications from 
localised interaction and augmenting gesture
to physicalising data and remote spatial sensing 


© Claudia Arnold 2018