Sixth Sense

Sixth Sense investigates the difficulty of understanding another person’s perception through augmented reality and spatial audio. The experience uses selected audiovisual cues associated with schizophrenia to invite conversation about empathy and the limits of what can be communicated through description alone.

Developed for Magic Leap during XR Brain Jam 2022, the project places perceptual shifts in the space around the participant. Its artistic question concerns the distance between an outwardly shared environment and an inwardly different experience of it. The work is an invitation to discussion, rather than a complete representation of any individual’s lived experience. Yiting served as technical lead on this collaborative project, which was presented through Games for Change.