Third Person Perspective

Takehito Ettani is an artist working with electronics, wearables, sculpture, video and performance. The Third Eye Project is part of his spiritual prosthetics series and gives the wearer a type of out of body experience by providing the wearer with a third person view of themselves similiar to the way one sees a character in a video game.



“The Third Eye" is a video device that is mounted onto the user's head enabling the person to experience perception from outside of his/her body. The device consists of a mono-eyed goggle with a 2-inch LCD monitor and a tiny surveillance camera held above the user's head."

"The visual experience of “The Third Eye” is similar to that of a 3D video game in which the user controls and follows a given character from behind. The device turns the user into the character that he/she is controlling and real space is transformed into virtual space."

He also does some performance video work with this walking through times square, def check out the videos on his site.