AGI 01, Folio 2 - Lost and Found Teddy

Lost and Found Teddy:

The treatment of my interactive projection mapping prototype is of an emotional and experimental nature. The user starts off seeing the actual, physical teddy that is sitting down, with a 3D model of teddy projected onto it. Multiple versions of Teddy are then seen to be floating on top of the main Teddy. With no fixed objective, the users interact with the floating Teddys using Leap Motion.  The floating Teddy all have different colors, and texture patterns, intending to visually represent one’s emotions, memories, and weight of meaning or importance.

The user would then either accidentally, or intentionally place these floating colored Teddys on the main Teddy. Upon contact with the big Teddy, the colored Teddy would disappear, and sound or chime would then play along with a visual indicator that interaction has taken place. The visual indicator would be faint sparkles surrounding the big Teddy, in a magical, child-like manner. The actions of placing these colored Teddy’s would be a subtle representation on how a person embeds human sentimentality onto objects.

Upon receiving a set number of colored Teddys, the big Teddy would be awoken, and visually escape from its sitting down position. The user would then be able to interact with the big Teddy that has begun to float. The free Teddy, symbolizing that the physical Teddy is now not just an object made of simple cotton and cloth. But something that transcends physicality. An object of human meaning, a visual externalization of sentimentality.