What if you could magically understand anyone in the world?
What if you could experience a conversation beyond words?

Spacechat is a virtual reality chatroom that allows users to interpret and experience speech with multiple senses. Users enter a mesmerizing digital world where they can speak with others in twelve languages using automatic realtime translation, and watch the emotional content of their conversation rendered dazzlingly in virtual reality.

http://spacechat.tech
Created by @elsa-brown, @thefishter, @keziyah, and @ssundby
Powered by A-Frame, WebGL, socket.io, React.js, Redux, Node.js, Express.js

• Users select one of twelve supported languages
  • English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
• Users enter one of four mysterious abstracted worlds
  • bubbles, plasma, cosmos, ufo
• Web sockets enable real-time communication between users and the VR environment
• Web Speech API both captures spoken messages in the user's browser and speechifies incoming messages
• Google Translate API powers seamless communication and understanding between all users, across languages
• Indico Text APIs continuously analyze conversation content
  • Sentiment: analyzes the positivity of a message
  • Emotion: analyzes a message's alignment with five emotions - anger, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise
  • Personality: predicts the personality of a speaker based on the Five Factor Model
• Virtual environments respond to Indico analyses by changing color, size, and movement patterns

• open source release, to allow users to create and submit their own VR worlds
• avatars to represent users, which visually respond specifically to that user's message content
• incorporation of WebRTC audio, to enable users subscribed to the same language to hear each other's voices