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Liquid City presents 'Reality Channels', an interactive installation in partnership with Niantic, demonstrating a future vision for the Real-World Metaverse. The experience was installed at Niantic’s first developer conference, the Lightship Summit 2022, in San Francisco.

⁠Liquid City and Niantic began a collaboration founded on a shared sense of responsibility, to avoid the pitfalls of an insular and exploitative metaverse, and to shape a positive vision for the technology.

The Reality Channels installation is a prototype of that future, showing a slice of the Real-World Metaverse overlaid on a conference setting. Visitors downloaded an app and then altered their realities by switching between different reality channels that were useful, beautiful and seamlessly meshed with reality. We documented the process and experience in a behind-the-scenes video and a developer blog post.