Pictures allow us to capture the moment we want to remember. They give visual clues, however, it is not the only visible thing we want to capture. Sound, breeze, temperature, and sunlight, there are a lot of senses we can’t capture from the camera.

The project started with the question of “what if we can record those senses and bring them back?” In this project, a person presses the shutter of a camera to record the environmental data. Brightness, sound, temperature, and humidity are captured and sent to the server, procedurally generating virtual scene in Unreal Engine based on a predetermined design system. After a week of photos, a virtual darkroom overlooking an environment opens up in the person’s computer. This place functions as the medium for one to turn invisible data into the visible by picking up “photos” one took. Once picked up, the virtual environment will transform into a state informed by the sensor readings and play the associated audio, presenting how the design system recorded that moment of memory.