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xPLORATORIU: How we turned TEDxBaiaMare’s photo archive into a interactive story on Apple Vision Pro

Reality check was invited this year by TEDxBaiaMare to built an experience that served a double purpose: bringing the event's rich history to life and showcasing a technology that may affect how we meet those questions in the years ahead.

How We Built the Emotional Journey of The Green Spurt - Part I: Laying the Emotional Groundwork

Designing spatial experiences is not only about what people can do in a space. It is about what they should feel there. This article details the frameworks and pipelines that helped built the emotional journey of The Green Spurt.

The Green Spurt: Our Spatial Computing Lab Experiment

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of The Green Spurt, a collaborative immersive escape room-style game for Apple Vision Pro. For us, this isn’t just a game, it’s the result of one year of research, experimentation, and exploration in spatial computing.

Emotions in the Machine – Part II: Making of the voiceover for The Green Spurt's game ending

In this follow-up, I document my process of generating a voiceover for The Green Spurt using Dia by Nari Labs, experimenting with audio prompts, non-verbal tags, and audio editing to craft a fitting emotional tone for one of the game’s ending scenes.

Emotions in the Machine – Part I: Testing Dia by Nari Labs for Game Voiceovers

As we approach the release of The Green Spurt, we needed a voiceover for the game's ending. In this article I share my first impressions of Dia, an open-source Text-To-Speech model by Nari Labs, that brings a new level of emotional depth to AI voices.

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