The Public Variable
a mixed reality arts space
How the experience works
- The app serves as the portal.
- Users enter a dynamic lobby with wrap-around environments, multiple versions/modes to choose from, and UI controls to toggle elements.
- It includes intros (full-size or mini), easter eggs, secret passages, and gamified expansions.
- Features like QR code/image recognition trigger specific sequences, touchscreen interactions, and performance optimizations (e.g., floor calibration, asset loading) enhance immersion.
- The experience is ongoing and expanding—new content, assets, and sections are added regularly, building toward the complete play. This format makes it deeply personal and location-agnostic: digital theatre overlays your real space, encouraging reflection on the themes in your own context. It's produced by Public Variable Theatre (a Houston-based company focused on original XR-immersive works) as a homemade, innovative response to making theatre accessible and presence-filled, even remotely.
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