© Lucas Wozniak 2024
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Vibe Walk invites participants on a walk through magical woods in a desktop 3D experience. After inventorying their own mood in an app, they can call up "circles of support" made up of text-based commentary pulled from subreddit comment trees that resonates with their mood description.
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How can text-based commentary from empathizing strangers online be rendered more alive, immediate, and personally relevant?
How can virtual environments integrate more seamlessly with traditional, 2D web data?
How can virtual environments be brought to life by live data inputs?
How can emotional vibes be shaped or resonated with by immersive text?
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I experimented with connecting a Unity virtual environment (magical woods) to realtime input (subreddit comments) from the traditional web. I used a Python socket that web-scrapes comments from relevant subreddits (based on the participant's mood entry in a mobile app), filters them with an NLP nearest neighbor algorithm, and loads them into a circular UI around the participant as they walk through the woods.
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Participants can experience social resonance with and support of their mood from anonymous strangers in a potentially more intimate, intentional, and personalized way than reading through a subreddit comment tree.
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Vibe Walk invites participants on a walk through magical woods in a desktop 3D experience. After inventorying their own mood in an app, they can call up "circles of support" made up of text-based commentary pulled from subreddit comment trees that resonates with their mood description.
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How can text-based commentary from empathizing strangers online be rendered more alive, immediate, and personally relevant?
How can virtual environments integrate more seamlessly with traditional, 2D web data?
How can virtual environments be brought to life by live data inputs?
How can emotional vibes be shaped or resonated with by immersive text?
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I experimented with connecting a Unity virtual environment (magical woods) to realtime input (subreddit comments) from the traditional web. I used a Python socket that web-scrapes comments from relevant subreddits (based on the participant's mood entry in a mobile app), filters them with an NLP nearest neighbor algorithm, and loads them into a circular UI around the participant as they walk through the woods.
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Participants can experience social resonance with and support of their mood from anonymous strangers in a potentially more intimate, intentional, and personalized way than reading through a subreddit comment tree.
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