Onion Routing AR Walking Tor is a participatory interpretation of the inner workings of onion routing and the TOR browser using augmented reality and location-based virtual markers. The tour is conducted with groups of 15-20 people who locate a series of geolocated 3D models representing global servers as waypoints around a centralized venue, forming a simulation of onion routing where each participant represents a programmatically routed data packet. Each route is randomly generated with each stop slowly decrypting a hidden message.

Created by Tiare Ribeaux and Donald Hanson.

Onion Routing AR Walking Tor has been presented at Radical Networks 2017 (NYC) and Obfuscating Ownership Privacy & Sousveillance 2018 (London)

Photo by Alex Wagner