Mycorrhizal networks -- often called nature's ``wood-wide web'' -- are vast underground mycelial systems that connect individual plants through countless hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi joining with plant roots. Through these hyphal webs, resources and signals -- carbohydrates, minerals, and biochemical cues -- are mutualistically exchanged and redistributed across plants, sustaining forests as relational symbiotic ecologies rather than isolated individuals. What is it like to be a plant within the wood-wide web? We present \emph{FungiSync}, a multi-person, co-located mixed reality (MR) experience that translates mycorrhizal interdependence into a felt, somaesthetic participatory ritual. Participants embody different forest plants by holding masquerade-style MR headset masks with wood-branch-like handles decorated with mushrooms. In MR, each participant perceives a distinct, audio-reactive psychedelic augmented reality overlay -- composed of resource-representing visual elements -- layered atop a shared physical terrain, symbolizing an individualized digital \emph{umwelt} (perceptual world). FungiSync reprograms human hand touch into a metaphorical mycorrhizal exchange. When participants touch hands, their digital \emph{umwelten} begin to entangle: visual elements leak, mix, and merge across perspectives, as if hyphae were forging new connections and carrying resources between hosts within a larger mycelial network. By making mycorrhizal interdependence perceptible through embodied contact, FungiSync invites participants to feel with \emph{fungal epistemics} -- a more-than-human alternative way of knowing grounded in symbiotic relationality as both an aesthetic experience and an ethical orientation -- offering a critique of the accelerated individualism characterizing our technology-mediated posthuman era.

翻译：菌根网络——常被称为自然的“木维网”——是由无数菌根真菌菌丝与植物根系连接形成的庞大地下菌丝系统，将个体植物相互联结。通过这些菌丝网络，资源与信号——碳水化合物、矿物质及生化线索——在植物间以互利方式交换与再分配，使森林得以作为关系性共生生态系统而非孤立个体存续。身处木维网中的植物体验究竟如何？本文提出《FungiSync》，一种多人共位混合现实体验，将菌根互依性转化为一种可感知的、身体美学的参与式仪式。参与者通过手持装饰有蘑菇的树枝状手柄的面具式MR头显，化身不同森林植物。在混合现实中，每位参与者感知到独特的、声音响应的迷幻增强现实叠加层——由代表资源的视觉元素构成——覆盖于共享物理地形之上，象征个性化的数字《感知世界》。FungiSync将人类的手部触摸重新编码为隐喻性的菌根交换。当参与者双手相触时，他们的数字《感知世界》开始纠缠：视觉元素在视角间渗透、混合与融合，宛如菌丝在更大的菌丝网络中建立新连接并在宿主间传递资源。通过具身接触使菌根互依性变得可感知，FungiSync邀请参与者以《真菌认知论》——一种超越人类的认知方式，根植于作为美学体验与伦理取向的共生关系性——进行感知，从而对技术中介的后人类时代中加速发展的个体主义提出批判。