Superblue & Meta Unveil VR Food Tasting Experience

 

This year at Art Basel in Miami, Superblue and Meta are combining forces to launch a food tasting experience that uses virtual reality headsets. In the experience, dubbed “Aerobanquets RMX,” participants will don Meta Quest 2 headsets to see the textures and flavors of the food rendered in virtual reality. But they will taste the food in real life.

 

To create the experience, Superblue has partnered with Aerobanquets founder Mattia Casalegno, chef Chintan Pandya, and Top Chef judge Gail Simmons. Casalegno, an interdisplinary artist, was responsible for the VR art in the experience, while Pandya cooks the food participants eat and Simmons narrates the virtual reality part of the experience.

 

Casalegno has stated that the inspiration for the mixed reality experience is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook, published in 1932. That book imagines the future of food in a utopian setting, and the descriptions of the food in “Aerobanquets RMX” seem to echo that. There is a “mousse of roasted hopes” and a “pearl” which tastes like the first time “you bit your lip,” among others.

 

Those interested in taking part in the experience have the option of a “standard” experience and a “VIP” experience. The standard experience costs $58 per person, runs 30 minutes long, and features five “bites.” The VIP experience costs $200 per person, lasts one hour, and features 10 bites.

 

The experience will take place between November 28th and December 4th at the Superblue art installation warehouse. Superblue has the reputation for hosting interesting exhibitions at its warehouse, including those that merge art and technology. That it would do so for Art Basel as well is perhaps no surprise.

Source: Rarity Sniper. Author: Chris Tepedino

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