Off-axis descent steered by head & hand movement: the body is the controller
Lean to the left and the tunnel leans with you, the way the view shifts at a real window. Ethereal Path is a descent from under a water surface into a nebula, steered by your head and your hands. A webcam reads your body on the device, and nothing it sees leaves the machine.
Every so often the drift stops at a broken ring. The ring closes when you make the movement it asks for: a slow turn of the head, a shrug, a reach. Then a question arrives, and the descent continues.
It runs in a browser tab, with or without a camera, in a five-minute seated version and an eight-minute version that gets you onto your feet.
Pose tracking runs in the page. Nothing is recorded or sent. The only network call is a one-time download of the tracking model, made only if you choose the camera.
WebGL2 / GLSL, MediaPipe body tracking, Web Audio
Picture a gallery with an empty room and a question it wants visitors to carry out of it. Sinaida designs the experience around the body: which movements the room asks for and how the light answers them. Underneath sits a tracking system she builds to run in that room, with nothing in the visitors’ hands.
Work with Sinaida Krivchenko