Shared Realities | Privacy Seekers

Briefing

Based on the IPPSO (Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces) project, the class explored the implications of always-on devices that transform our physical world into a phygital one.

Supervised and inspired by: Boris Müller, Dr. Romi Mikulinsky, and Markus Kreutzer, lele and I developed this vision of the not so distant future where privacy concerned citizens use jammer technology to hide from these always on recorders.

Shared Realities

Welcome to the year 2029, where spatial computing is everywhere and the physical city has become a fidgety interface that anyone can edit, filter, or reskin in real time.

Smart glasses are so ubiquitous that people might be recorded all the time.

Privacy-seeking people wear jamming technology to avoid appearing on other people's recordings.

Different spaces need different kinds of anonymity.

Using geofencing, citizens totally or partially jam their appearance, depending on their current location and the space they're in.

This jamming technology allows users to disguise specific features of a person's physique.

Things like skin tone, general colours, or gender are removable.

Public Spaces

Public spaces, like subways or trains, where one has little control over who's filming whom, can force people into full anonymity by disguising every possible aspect of their identity.

Safe Spaces

In safe spaces, people let their guards down.

They allow themselves to be filmed and provide useful augmentation around them, which creates an aura of information.

Leaving a safe space removes this aura and disguises specific features.

Different Groups of People

Different groups of people are allowed to break through this barrier of anonymity.

Upon approach, the glasses identify themselves to others, allowing their jammers to reveal their personalised auras.

The jammer hides their personal information while allowing them to see the world around them.