Foals - Mountain At My Gates (VR Music Video)

Another music video, this time as an example to haptic visuality. 'Haptic looking tends to move over the surface of its object rather than plunge into illusionistic depth, not to distinguish form so much as to discern texture. It is more inclined to move than to focus, more inclined to graze than to gaze', describes Laura Marks. "Mountain At My Gates" was intended to be a promotion to the GoPro HERO and was recorded from multiple angles to be edited into a 360° VR clip. If you're watching in Google Chrome, you can "grab the screen" and explore the surroundings of the band playing. The Youtube phone app might be an even better option, as you just have to move your phone around. As the song intensifies, the wind picks up speed, carrying leaves around, while the mountains in the background grow, and more and more birds fly overhead. It is a step beyond optic visuality, and I believe it achieves an effect similar to 3D: we lose the distance from the objects and become physically immersed.