Gallery: An Arty Oculus Trip Through the Large Hadron Collider
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*[Collider](http://funktroniclabs.com/collider)* is an arty audiovisual experience that provides a first-person perspective of a particle hurtling through the Large Hadron Collider.
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Human hands are replaced with kinematic rigging bones, like something from a [Dire Straits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag) video, while subtle motions made by the user remake the virtual world with kaleidoscope of generative graphics and pulsing music.
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Creator Eddie Lee looked to natural human behaviors, like "pinch and pull" gestures and claps to interact with *Collider* due to their commonly understood meanings, cross-cultural applicability, and ability to be detected by the Leap Motion sensor.
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*Collider* is best experienced with a Leap Motion detector and Oculus Rift headset.
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*Collider's* aesthetic layer is a fascinating array of choices and influences, including scientific-looking reticules, day-glo color palettes and low-poly graphics, as well as 1960s psychedelia like the [Eye of Providence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence).
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*Collider* can be experienced without a VR headset. Users simply wave their hands over the Leap Motion detector and see the results projected on a screen.
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"We wanted the player to feel a sense of 'play,', as if he or she was jamming to music and was in total control of how the music and visuals progressed," says Lee.
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"3-D is a wild-west of UX design. This is extremely exciting because we, as developers, have the ability to define how the user engages with this brand new interface paradigm," says Lee.
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*Collider* is the closest communion you can make to the sublime without indulging in psychotropic substances, and is available for free through the [Leap Motion app store](https://apps.leapmotion.com/apps/collider/osx).
