Like all martial arts, taichi started as a combat system, but gradually evolved into a practice for health, wellness, and competitive sports. A mixed reality experience was designed to reveal how taichi developed over its long history and raise questions about how traditions struggle in modern society.

As a person goes through the timeline of taichi’s development, their surrounding natural and walled environment also changes.

The walled environment’s different forms were derived from different types of sensor data collected from the same martial arts punch movement: an accelerometer on the right fist, a camera with body pose detection software.

Technical Skills

Unity, Vuforia, Rhino, 3ds Max, ml5js, p5js, Processing, Arduino