Fridolin Wild

Professor Fridolin Wild

Small Group Project 2021-22

UNBODY

UNBODY is a Mixed Reality (MR) Hololens installation co-created by award-winning poet Jay Bernard, Eric White (Oxford Brookes University), Fridolin Wild (Open University), and John Twycross (University College London). In the exhibit, holographic texts and film clips spill from dayglow billboards and totems. Bernard probes the boundaries between identity and consciousness, using trans poetics to explore how words haunt and re-create our physical selves in an extended, hybridised reality. The exhibit also departs from the graphic-centric worlds of Virtual Reality (VR) and MR to explore their textual and aural dimensions.

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Areas of interest

Technology Virtual Reality Augmented Reality

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FG7

Biography

Prof Wild has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, journal articles, and book chapters, and seven books. His €2.7m funded project 'Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT)' investigated AR technology supporting astronauts, doctors, and engineers with immersive training. His technical leadership of the €3.9m ARETE project on building a Europe-wide competitive ecosystem for XR interactive education won the Standards+Innovation award 2022 of CEN/Cenelec. He led the Augmented Reality technology roadmap in Product Assurance and Safety of the European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC).

As professor for AR/VR at the Open University and Director of the Research Programme ‘Performance Augmentation’, he is supervising several PhD students, also at other Universities in the UK and in Sweden. He is part of the management team and steering group of the University’s OpenXR studios where, with £5.8M from the Office for Students, he is building new production facilities to support future XR projects.

Biographical details correct as of 24.04.26