Reliving moments of our lives may sound like the plot of Netflix’s Black Mirror, but new technology will soon allow people to step into a captured memory.
Wist is developing a smartphone app to record unforgettable moments that are uploaded to a virtual reality headset, allowing users to interact with their once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
The program captures the 3D information from the footage to turn any recording into an immersive world.
The VR app, called Vivid, is available for beta on iOS, but is paired with a Quest VR headset and allows users to invite friends to join them in their memories.
The VR app transforms images taken by a smartphone and uploads them to a virtual reality headset so you can relive memories.
The VR app echoes the plot of Black Mirror’s ‘The Entire History of You’, where people access memories via an implant that records everything they see.
Technology allows them to rewind, zoom in and sift through scenes from their everyday lives.
Vivid, however, shows the memories you record on a smartphone.
Wist founder Andrew McHugh said this is possible thanks to the sensors and software in modern smartphones with 3D capture technology.
“The right mix of this new technology may allow us to capture: Space moments in time where you can go back,” Hughs shared in a Medium post.
“And the right design and engineering can make this as easy as capturing video. We can make a Pensieve real.
To relive a memory, users record an experience with the Vivid app, which collects the information needed to transform 2D footage into a 3D world. Free thought reports.
The VR app echoes the plot of Black Mirror’s ‘The Entire History of You’, where people access memories via an implant that records everything they see.
You are transported to the virtual world while still being in the comfort of your own home. The screen shows a play button to activate your memories.
Users can also pause the experience with the push of a button.
“During capture, we save color, depth, device pose, audio, and scene information,” McHugh explained to Freethink.
‘Depth is captured using the LiDAR sensors on iPhone and iPad Pro models.’
The smartphone app can also display 3D images without a VR headset
The app and program are still in the early stages, showing videos with glitches and missing parts of the scene.
However, Wist wants to improve the app before it is officially released.
The concept was also developed by a developer who recreated his experiences captured by Snapchat Spectacles.
Lucas Rizzotto used the specs for a year, recording his journal every day and using the footage to create a virtual reality ‘time machine’ that lets you relive any 2019 experience you want.
Rizzotto wore a pair of Snapchat Spectacles 3 glasses that feature two cameras built into the frame, which can record stereoscopic 3D video.
He created a video detailing the construction process of the virtual reality ‘time machine’.
Equipped with an Oculus Rift S t VR time machine and wearing a Nintendo Power Glove for visual effect only, Rizzotto recorded his first time jump to a year in the past which was displayed on a giant screen for viewers to see. .
“I’m up in a tree, eating a bagel,” Rizzotto said as he laughed that this was his first moment in time.
“Watching you live your life as a stranger really hits you,” Rizzotto explained in the video.
‘You get insight into who you are that you just can’t get any other way. I learned a lot about myself just by watching him and the project as a whole made me realize that I was often very harsh and mean to myself as a human being. That guy I was watching was just… doing his best.’
