I took off my shoes to enter the theater space. My eyeglasses, too. The shoes were part of the ritual, but it turned out that An Ark, an augmented reality theater piece showcased at The Shed in New York City, uses Magic Leap 2 glasses. And those don’t work with my prescription. I put on contact lenses in the bathroom before the show.
In a carpeted room with dozens of people seated in the round, I put on the tethered pair of AR glasses. So did everyone else. We sat together while holographic performers,…
