BirdMan is half human and half bird. The world in which they live is a vast desert surrounded by an infinite wall of mirrors. BirdMan can only become complete by reflecting the other half in the mirrors. But that perfection is both virtual and real.

This work maximizes the effect of binocular rivalry. It makes the environment in the virtual world more surreal by displaying different images on both sides of the head-mounted display. Like Wittgenstein's rabbit-duck illustration or the Necker cube, BirdMan's hybrid perception gives us the opportunity to perceive our own perception. As Thomas Nagel demonstrated in What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, we cannot perceive the perceptions of others. Still, we cannot stop trying for the sake of the symbiosis with others.