Online Town
June 20, 2019 + March-April 2020
A new interface for gathering online.
Like Zoom and Pokemon combined. Walk in and out of different conversations, just like you would in real life.
We're the Siempre Collective.
For over a year, we developed systems that helped us support fulfilling long-term relationships with our closest friends, families, and communities, no matter where they were.
Our last experiment, Online Town, is now being continued by the team at Gather.
We've also open-sourced all our work so that the future of these ideas isn't limited by our ability or circumstances. We hope you'll put them to good use.
Always with love,
Cyrus, Phillip and Kumail
A new interface for gathering online.
Like Zoom and Pokemon combined. Walk in and out of different conversations, just like you would in real life.
Explorations in living, working and socializing with VR + using VR as a medium for understanding presence in general
Used daily by our friends and family, this is our longest-running experiment in remote co-living.
It makes it really easy for you to see all of the people you love and to help them see you without coordination and without those people having to see each other either.
Two-way audio with the people closest to you. Occasionally more accessible than any other device.
An app that lets you know who is free based on their location, headphone usage and manual input. You tap on a friend's name and it'll let audio pass through immediately, as if it was a pre-accepted call.
Our neighbors told us they cared about Halloween a lot.
This is what we built to surprise them.
What if video calls actually felt like portals?
Move your head around and you'd see different parts of the room on the other side!
Normal calls only give you a fixed reference frame.
An iOS app to lower the friction, awkwardness and cost of asking your friends to help you.
What if you could grab dinner with your friends no matter where they were?
Just go to your nearest portal-enabled restaurant!
A real-time chat client where the letters stream out of sight as you type them.
Designed to help you be in the moment.
This was our first project together. It combines a 3D camera with a 3D display to make it feel like you're talking to a live hologram of your friend!
We'd love to hear from you.