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Global Finalist

The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

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


Tags
#sounds #noise #asmr #world #together #isolated
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.