The Room Presumed utilizes machine learning and real-time video processing to reveal the paradoxes inherent in the ways we speak about immersive media. In other words, the act of speaking about immersion, as is so often done in the marketing of tech, is somewhat paradoxical. One could imagine instead, that a true state of "immersion" may defy the need for language all together.

The work is inspired by a chapter in Howard Rheingold’s 1983 book, Tools for Thought which describes an early 1980s thought-experiment at Atari in which a group of computer scientists envision “virtual reality” without any of the needed tools to produce it. Through this exercise, the subjects became improvisational actors, speaking the roles of “user” and “interface”. Scripted by an ML trained on this account, The Room Presumed distends their unfinished acts and reveals the illusory comforts of a so-called “technological immersion.”

SAMPLE 1
You don't want to walk around like a human. Or talk like a human.
You want a human to talk to you. And if it happens to be your choice, you don't want to walk around like an ape? You don't want to do your own laundry.
Or write a book.
You want to write a letter.
You want to write a book. What you ask me to do; my body can do. You want to do a word processor. You want to play a video game. You want to communicate like a computer. You want to write an email.
You want to write a book.
You want to write a memoir. These are the questions you hope to ask me when I ask the question.
You want to know what kind of information a human knows? You want to get to know yourself? Maybe your own experiences?
You want to learn?
You want to see what I see?
You want to decide?
You want to decide?
You want to decide.

SAMPLE 38
A: "I am a good person, I think I am more than a person.  B: "I don't like your way of saying that I am a piece of flesh."  C:  "I am a very young man,"  "I don't want to be a piece of flesh,"  "I don't want to become something."  D:  "I will write you your name, and a few more."   "I will use your name," 
"I will call you the person that I will use," "I will call you the person I will call," "I will walk you through your streets," "I will place you in front of your houses and windows,"   "I will look through your windows,"   "I will look down your faces,"  
"I will place you in the front."

The person you want to speak with will probably have a good idea what you're talking about, or what you can't talk about. This was what happens when you ask a person to talk.



SAMPLE 6
A machine without human rights? Where will the human mind be if any laws of nature impose human rights?
A machine without human rights? You are simply trying to erase the past, in your mind.
You do not even know the real reason behind your world.

You think that this can be done?