City Of Sparkles An Interactive Virtual Reality Experiment for Storytelling based on Twitter Real-time Data DESCRIPTION: City of Sparkles is an interactive virtual reality experience using ... See full summary
City of Sparkles (2018) Online
- Original Title :
- City of Sparkles
- Genre :
- Movie
- Year :
- 2018
- Directror :
- Yang Liu
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 15min
- Rating :
- 6.5/10
City Of Sparkles An Interactive Virtual Reality Experiment for Storytelling based on Twitter Real-time Data DESCRIPTION: City of Sparkles is an interactive virtual reality experience using real Twitter messages to tell stories of New York City where an artistic virtual New York City is dynamically shaped with sparkles. Each of sparkles represents a real Twitter message from residents of New York City, and its color and motion represents the emotion mood and the geographical location of the message. Audience can freely fly in the virtual city, and discover the messages left in the city, and feel the lonely souls. The experience contains several chapters. Each chapter has a story line and its own emotion mood. We use Natural Language Processing to programmatically curate the tweets to match the mood of the chapter. For example, the black and white scene represents anger and anxiety, while the blue scene consists of tweets reflecting lonely but positive emotion. Audience can interact ...