# Baoberg TM

Canonical URL: https://baoyangchen.com/works/baoberg/
Interactive page: https://baoyangchen.com/#work/baoberg
Year: 2018
Category: xR Works
Medium: Virtual reality, zorb ball, screens

## Proposition
A transparent sphere turns virtual utopia into a precarious body position, while a market screen pulls the dream back into speculation.

## Description
Baoberg TM places the viewer inside a suspended transparent sphere and a virtual environment. The body enters a fragile, unstable relation with a digital world that promises immersion.

The work connects virtual experience with the public stories that surround technology. Utopia appears as something built, entered, watched, traded, and made unstable.

A Bloomberg-like interface and Bitcoin fluctuation bring the ideal of decentralized technology into contact with market pressure, media attention, and speculative desire.

## Viewer Entry
The viewer enters or encounters a transparent sphere, a structure that looks weightless but makes the body aware of balance, containment, and exposure. Screens extend the experience outward, turning private immersion into a public scene of technological belief and financial volatility.

## Apparatus
Baoberg TM combines VR, a zorb-like transparent sphere, and screen-based financial information. The sphere gives virtual experience a physical body and boundary. The Bitcoin interface introduces a second layer, where technological idealism meets speculation and media framing.

## Sections
### The Transparent Sphere
The sphere is both interface and symbol. It places the viewer inside a self-contained world while keeping the body visible from outside.

### Virtual Utopia
The VR environment stages the promise of an ideal digital space. That promise is made unstable by the viewer's suspended and exposed position.

### Bitcoin as Screen
Market fluctuation enters the work as a live or simulated financial surface. The utopian language of decentralization becomes entangled with speculation.

### Media as Filter
The work looks at how technology is narrated, circulated, and inflated through media. Public belief becomes part of the technological system.

## Images
1. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/02-9018fdfa-baoberg_center_2.jpg - The transparent sphere turns VR immersion into a visible, precarious bodily condition.
2. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/03-db2525bd-baoberg_terminal_1.jpg - A market-facing interface connects digital utopia to the volatility of cryptocurrency speculation.
3. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/04-d390cef3-baoberg_ball_1.jpg - The viewer's body becomes part of the interface between virtual promise and physical instability.
4. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/05-bbca2ac5-baoberg_center_1.jpg
5. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/06-149f144a-baoberg_center_3.jpg
6. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/09-8b6bd90b-baoberg_vr.jpg - Screens, sphere, and surrounding space frame technology as both immersive promise and public narrative.
7. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/07-6cfe0e5c-baoberg_terminal_2.jpg
8. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/08-f1ae007c-baoberg_ball_2.jpg
9. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/baoberg/01-7120e88b-baoberg_vr2.jpg

## Videos
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## Source Pages
- https://baoyangchen.com/Baoberg-1