Paper Info
Title
Further Dimensions: Text, Typography and Play in the Metaverse
Abstract
In this text I wish to delve into the creation of textual content as well as its visualization through typographic design mechanisms inside three dimensional virtual worlds, which are known as the metaverse. I am particularly focused upon the way in which such virtually three dimensional environments may place the usage of text within a context that stands in contradiction to its traditional one by creating an unexpected novel purpose which takes a marked departure from the intrinsic attribute with which text has inherently been associated - namely the attribute of readability. In such environments readability, or indeed even legibility, may often be displaced through the usage of text and typography as a playful device, as artifacts which may manifest in puzzle-like configurations, or as visual structures the contents of which are meant to be understood through means other than straightforward reading, thus bringing about states of heightened engagement, wonder and 'play' through their manipulation or indeed simply by being immersed within the spaces which are brought about through their very agency. I also wish to expand upon this subject by talking about my own experiments with this material and will conclude by positing that further virtual dimensions can be instrumental in eliciting exciting alternative usages of text and typography which bring to the fore the allographic properties of text as an artistic/creative expressive media that may well bear further scrutiny and exploration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CW.2012.50
Cyberworlds
Keywords
Field
DocType
exciting alternative usage,dimensional virtual world,marked departure,virtual dimension,environments readability,heightened engagement,creative expressive media,dimensional environment,intrinsic attribute,allographic property,virtual reality,text analysis
Wonder,Typography,Legibility,Computer vision,Metaverse,Deconstruction,Computer science,Readability,Artificial intelligence,Multimedia,Instrumental and intrinsic value,Contradiction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2736-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elif Ayiter1116.66