A semi-fiction on its way to reality, Hyperloop will create a new relationship between passengers and the natural world.
HYPERLOOP LANDSCAPE
HYPERSPEED Faster than the speed of sight?
Borrowing a video from Hyperloop One’s early trials, this simulation offers a glimpse of the passenger’s perception of speed in the tunnel while traveling at 750 mph.
This simulation, which demonstrates the Hyperloop passenger’s view while travelling through a natural landscape, establishes a thesis: Hyperloop’s unprecedented ground speed yields a disruptive visual experience for the traveller.
LANDSCAPE Do travelers need to see their environment?
Landscape establishes context for understanding one’s environment relative to a point of view.
It creates a narrative for
the passage of time and place,
and a dynamic canvas onto which
an observer can project imagination.
A window provides essential access to this visual resource, through which
the passenger can also correlate
the feeling of motion
with the motion observed.
NO MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
SHOULD DENY THE TRAVELER A WINDOW
At hyperspeed, landscape images move too quickly for the eyes to follow or for the brain to process.
This perspective isn’t sustainable for more than a few minutes before exhaustion and nausea set in.
Between the demand for a window
and the challenge of observing
the landscape at hyperspeed,
a problem arises:
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How do we satisfy
the passenger’s need for perspective...
... and in what ways can our solution create a unique travel experience aboard Hyperloop?
