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Child of Eden review: Fleeting Genius

June 15, 2011June 17, 2011 Doug Groves Child Of Eden, Child of Eden review, Microsoft, Q Entertainment, review, Rez, synesthesia, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ubisoft, video, Xbox 3601 Comment

If I had to categorize Child of Eden, it would be a “first person J-pop electronica visualizer science fiction dance rail shooter”. While that sounds like a disjointed mouthful, everything flows together seamlessly. Taking place in the same universe as Q Entertainment’s earlier Rez, Child of Eden ups the ante in all respects, making it a singular experience, that all but achieves designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s goal of inducing synesthesia in the player, delightfully crossing the wires between sound and vision.

Smelling Light and Hearing Shapes

October 25, 2010October 26, 2010 Pete Chapman McGill University, Science Daily, synesthesia1 Comment

Sense and Sensibility 2.0 Synesthesia: the translation of one sensory mode into another, is no longer the domain of New Age mystics and lightshow designers. A deeper understanding of the neural structures underlying perception is creating very literal crossovers in how we think about the senses. With this, the possibility of a radical rewiring of how we experience the world is visible (tasteable, audible, touchable…). Two recent items from Science Daily: At Harvard neurobiologists are using optogenetically engineered mice that respond to light through their olfactory system; the sense of…