The Reverse Turing Test

Are you ready for a test of humanity? In the interactive VR installation ‘The Reverse Turing Test’ by Tore Knabe, you slip into the role of Genghis Khan and find yourself in a virtual train compartment - surrounded by Aristotle, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci and Cleopatra. But these historical greats are controlled by artificial intelligences with a common goal: To unmask you as the only human in the round. You are faced with the exciting task of ‘hiding’ among AIs. An extraordinary VR experience that explores the boundaries between man and machine in a new way and poses a question we encounter every day in a different way: Who are humans, what makes them different from machines?

Tore Knabe is a virtual reality developer and digital pioneer who explores the boundaries of new technologies. His journey began with the early days of mobile computing and the development of innovative games and learning apps. Since 2013, Knabe has been at the forefront of virtual reality experiments, working to expand the possibilities of human-computer interaction.

A production by Tore Knabe and the Theater an der Ruhr as part of ‘Theatre of Augmented Realities’.

The Theatre of Augmented Realities is a research and development project by Theater an der Ruhr in collaboration with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality and the MIREVI Lab at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, funded as part of NEUE WEGE by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.