Immersive Sprints

Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things

You found the victim, now make the case.

Sherlock Holmes and the IoT New York Project presented players who stumbled upon crime scenes the opportunity to imaginatively create a narrative to reverse engineer the caper. Participants received help and clues from a virtual Scotland Yard via a rotary phone connected to IBM Watson API with multi-narrative script elements.

This piece has been featured at Lincoln Center for the NY Film Festival & the NY Media Lab for their annual conference. This was a collaborative effort with Lance Weiler & Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab.

Roles Included: script writing for potential A.I. pathways and Experience Design

Shared Reality + Social Justice

An exploration into best practices for designing and producing VR/AR/XR experiences as tools for Social Justice.

A day long collaborative session at Columbia University designed to help incubate and scale virtual/augmented/mixed reality experiences as tools for Social Justice. Together we stepped into the work of Performing Statistics – an organization that harnesses the stories, art and performance of incarcerated youth to train law enforcement agents. Collaborations between several organizations including Refinery 29, The Center for Justice, and Performing Statistics opened ideas with designed thinking, new media methodologies, and the power of storytelling.

MyPlace

A Non-Stop Party, In VR, No Clean-up.

MyPlace is an award-winning conceptual Social VR app designed for the Gear VR and Google Cardboard headsets. It was developed at the 24 Hours in VR hackathon sponsored by StartApp. The app is designed to use both VR and Android/iOS app interfaces. It was prototyped in the Unity3D game engine with a font end concept written in JavaScript.

Roles included: Experience Design, Media Marketing and Creative Direction

Technology

Python - Arduino - Javascript

Net Vibes

“Net Vibes” is an exploration of transhumanism through wearables and the ability to augment our bodies and senses with embedded technology.

The device is a wearable sleeve allows users to sense WiFi signals with their body based of density and signal strength of networks.It consists of a sleeve, ESP32, OLED display, LEDs and haptic motors. The device is programmed to mimic sensory adaptation of our bodies to new environments similar to how smells or sounds can be overwhelming at first but then subside.

The presentation includes a series of slides and videos that discusses details surrounding the ideation, design, and public reception of the project including some unexpected insights.

The device was created while at the IDM masters program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in its “Interactive Objects and Systems” course.

Technology

Python - Arduino - Javascript

Net Vibes

“Net Vibes” is an exploration of transhumanism through wearables and the ability to augment our bodies and senses with embedded technology.

The device is a wearable sleeve allows users to sense WiFi signals with their body based of density and signal strength of networks.It consists of a sleeve, ESP32, OLED display, LEDs and haptic motors. The device is programmed to mimic sensory adaptation of our bodies to new environments similar to how smells or sounds can be overwhelming at first but then subside.

The presentation includes a series of slides and videos that discusses details surrounding the ideation, design, and public reception of the project including some unexpected insights.

The device was created while at the IDM masters program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in its “Interactive Objects and Systems” course.

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