Ventana| The Isolation Solution
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The Isolation Solution
Around the World
Summary
Sound is comforting. Around the World, brings sounds from across the globe into your ears. Our goal is to create an app for people to connect to streams of noise and sounds across the world and find comfort in times of isolation.
How We Addressed This Challenge
During COVID-19, everyone has made a conscious effort to socially isolate and stop the spread of the disease. With "Around the World" we wanted to highlight that sound, is very comforting, especially sounds of static everyday noises. We believe that just hearing noises or sounds from others, simply living their everyday life, can give someone comfort that they are not alone.
How We Developed This Project
Our inspiration was 'The Golden Record' from The Voyager. Our record is our planet and we wanted to show sounds from around our beautiful world. We based our project on a couple of key technologies.
1. WebGL Earth
We wanted to show a Globe of the world that was powered by Nasa, spanning over large cities where users can zone into and listen to 'sounds' from that area
2. Socket.io
We wanted the ability for users to connect via WebSocket
3. WebRTC
We wanted users to be able to stream their own sounds
Outside of that our stack is as follows:
GeoLocations API
Node.js
Express
Web Audio API
Socket.io
jQuery
WebGL Earth
Materialize