City of Sparkles
How might an AI life form perceive our city? "City of Sparkles" is an immersive, data-driven VR experience where users embody an artificial being exploring a vast sea of human memories. Users fly over a virtual digital twin of New York City, with each "sparkle" representing a geo-tagged tweet collected from Twitter for four years. Colors, motion, and visual effects mirror the emotional content of these tweets as they float above the photogrammetry-based city model.
Authors
- Botao Amber Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4504-0941)
- Yang Liu
- Ran Duan
Institutions
- REALITY Publishing (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/vrw66409.2025.00490
- Primary Topic
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00