Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour Ring

Made for A Sense of Jewellery at the Goldsmiths' Centre, Clerkenwell — a survey of forty years of British jewellery curated by Amanda Game and Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE, part of the London Design Festival.

Andrew Lamb works wire at microscopic scale, using laser-welding alongside traditional tools to make "jewellery with mesmerising optical effects that shift and change as pieces move with the wearer." The piece let visitors look at his Lenticular Changing Colour Ring (2015) far closer than an unaided eye allows: a VR-like headset showing a custom macOS application, with a Leap Motion tracking the visitor's hand so they turned and moved the ring in mid-air rather than through any control.

The Centre's own account of the show describes it as "Oculus Rift glasses" whose view "is manipulated by a sensor, controlled by the wearer's hand", and credits "Stef Lewandowski, of Makeshift". The hand-tracking is right; the headset is not — see the correction below.

Not every visitor was won over. Stephen Knott's review for Art Jewelry Forum called it "a tedious effort to incorporate a digital three-dimensional visualization of a ring" whose calibration "caused my patience to expire within seconds."