Magic in the Matrix

Marco Tempest prototyping our augmented future really at e.g. 7 with Kinect VR rig and a deck of cards.

Today, WIRED called him The World’s Most Wired Magician:

“Whereas many magicians jealously guard their tricks, Tempest considers himself an open-source illusionist.

Tempest’s field was, he notes, once ahead of science, and he sees magic as a way of envisioning where new technologies might take us.

“Magic just tends to resist change, somehow,” Tempest says. “It’s almost like magic forgot how it started. We are the early adopters. We’re supposed to be the ones who try out the new stuff a little bit ahead of everybody else.”