​​P3: Dark Horse Prototype
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​​Team
​​​@Takara S​ ​@Gemma G​ ​@Genji N​ ​@Charles O​ 
​​Deadline
​​Wednesday October 25, in Studio (demo + submission)
​​Spec
​​Submission
  • ​​Takara Satone, #26338908
  • ​​Charles Olivar #26278221
  • ​​Gemma Guo #26130808
  • ​​Genji Noguchi, #26507938

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​List of at least 5 different dark horse ideas

  1. ​​Randomly assigning speakers of different backgrounds to different campuses
  1. ​​Go to a phone directory, call random people and ask for their perspective
  1. ​​Email a survey out, get responses, consolidate out with those responses to show the different responses
  1. ​​“Culture Package”, send a package with items that reflect your culture/location, and send it to a different part of the world. The person who receives it would send one back.
  1. ​​Use VR headset to make an empathy machine. Given a prompt, create a 360 video answering it, sharing it with other people. To literally “share viewpoints” of places around the world. 

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​Description of dark horse prototype, including a rationale for what makes it a dark horse

​​Our dark horse prototype is an application in which a user is given a prompt such as “how do you get around,” and is then able to film or upload a 360 video response to the prompt. Using a VR headset, users can view the video responses uploaded or recorded by other users, and thus experience what others experience on a day-to-day basis. 
​​This idea is a dark horse because it takes a much more radical approach to sharing points of view: by literally sharing a point of view with someone in a very different part of the world with likely a different perspective. Rather than a person trying to share their own perspective using words, the dark horse idea captures a snapshot of the person’s life and directly hands it to someone else; the way that the other person interprets it is entirely up to them. It’s an idea that is unlikely to succeed mostly because of how new VR technology is. 360 degree cameras are still expensive and not widely marketed or produced, as is VR viewing technology. However, if it were to succeed, it would be game-changing because it would allow people from all different perspectives to be able to empathize with each other in a whole new way.

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​Captured storyboard (photos or video) of lo-fi prototype

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