This project was part of the Immersive Realities Hackathon and won first place. In a team of 5, we prototyped an accessible XR social platform, that addresses the lack of human connection on current platforms.
Pitch
COMSPHERE is an XR and web app solution for empowering communities towards productive communication and inclusive and informed decision making.
Online platforms have a great potential for enabling communities to connect. However, a large part of communication is lost online without elements of social presence like voice and body language.
For example, as a newcomer to a country, you might face a wall of government materials to overcome. Forums feel like endless scrolling. You are alone within a sea of profile pictures. But what if you could access help and empathy from your XR community at your fingertips?
You are the heart and soul of COMSPHERE. Via an immersive experience we empower users like you for productive communication and problem solving.
COMSPHERE consists of an XR app where communites can establish their own XR space. They can pose questions and upload media like custom digital twin models, record opinions and join in on real time live chat sessions via customisable avatars. An automated transcription, translation and summary service is available for ease of information sharing.
Community-driven solutions are pushed forward by self governing metrics like user approval and user engagement.
The web app completes the COMSPHERE core solution by providing access to the information and community for users who do not have XR headsets. It is designed with inclusivity for disabled users in mind. Via speech to text and text to speech, web app users can join in on live chat sessions.
The interface for the web app allows for easy and device-friendly access to user’s favorite communities, to popular posts and to active chat rooms.
