Conserving Hypertext Art

  • Rob Swigart's DATA ENTRY: PORTAL
  • Adapted from Portal (game) & Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval (book) for the VR Environment
  • 2023

DATA ENTRY: PORTAL is an adaptation of the game Portal published in 1986 by Activision and the novel Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval published in 1988 by St. Martin's Press. Built as a Virtual Reality experience for the Quest 2, it takes the player through four puzzles and interactions with the AI named Homer that unlock the mystery of why humans have left Earth—and how to bring them back.

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