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GMU:Critical VR Lab I/L.-E. Kuehr (view source)
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While there is a lot of talk about the obscure, dark or funny places in the internet, I wanted to shine light on places in the internet, where people talk about serious topics, search for genuine advice or motivation. Furthermore I want to explore the possibilities of analysing the spaces using word embeddings and presenting it in a way that would reflect the feeling that these communities convey. | While there is a lot of talk about the obscure, dark or funny places in the internet, I wanted to shine light on places in the internet, where people talk about serious topics, search for genuine advice or motivation. Furthermore I want to explore the possibilities of analysing the spaces using word embeddings and presenting it in a way that would reflect the feeling that these communities convey. | ||
The communities I am talking about are various subreddits that all have one thing in common and that is that by partaking or reading the discussions one does feel a little bit of internet | The communities I am talking about are various subreddits that all have one thing in common and that is that by partaking or reading the discussions one does feel a little bit of internet sentimentality while at the same time beeing fully aware that most of what is written there are empty phrases, words that are depraved of their meaning, thus loosing their meaning and only gaining a new one by the context they are presented in. | ||
And while that was an empty phrase as well, you are invited to walk the endless plaines of ''The Internet is a calm and soothing place'' and explore the various accumulations of words and letters that form the space of serious internet conversations. | |||
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==Concept:== | ==Concept:== | ||
The viewer experiences the word embeddings by wandering through a minimalistic procedural generated world. To guide the viewer towards the "word-spheres" the viewer is followed by a swarm of letters that live and get born if you are close to a word-sphere and die the further away you get from them. After interacting with a word-sphere, the viewer is presented the word embedding and has now the chance to explore the word-relations by formulating sentences or searching for words that will be shown in the word-cloud. | The viewer experiences the word embeddings by wandering through a minimalistic procedural generated world. To guide the viewer towards the "word-spheres" the viewer is followed by a swarm of letters that live and get born if you are close to a word-sphere and die the further away you get from them. After interacting with a word-sphere, the viewer is presented the word embedding and has now the chance to explore the word-relations by formulating sentences or searching for words that will be shown in the word-cloud. | ||
The world is empty and endless and the player feels anonymous and no matter the dirrection he goes, the flavour of the world around him might change, but the monolithic structures and the repetitive nature of the grassy hills around him stay the same forever. | The world is empty and endless and the player feels anonymous and no matter the dirrection he goes, the flavour of the world around him might change, but the monolithic structures and the repetitive nature of the grassy hills around him stay the same forever. The subreddits analyzed are: | ||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/ /r/confession] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/ /r/GetMotivated] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/ /r/offmychest] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/ /r/quotes] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/ /r/relationship_advice] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/ /r/relationships] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/SeriousConversation/ /r/SeriousConversation] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNew/ /r/UpliftingNew] | |||
[https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/ /r/CasualConversation] | |||
Alle these subreddits are analyzed seperatly and scattared as interactable sphere all over the generated world. When interacting with these spheres, the viewer sees a short description of the forum and then the according word-cloud. | |||
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File:VRI-LEK-1.png | File:VRI-LEK-1.png | ||
File:VRI-LEK-2.png | File:VRI-LEK-2.png | ||
File:VRI-LEK-3.png | File:VRI-LEK-3.png | ||
File:VRI-LEK-4.png | |||
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