Award-winning creator Lucas Rizzotto is running an exciting social VR experiment \u2013 a beautifully crafted immersive world inhabited by people\u2019s most personal thoughts and wishes in his new project, Where Thoughts Go.<\/p>\n
The Garage is a big proponent of exploring and experimenting in the augmented, virtual, and mixed reality spaces. With our futuristic new Reality Room<\/a> open to employees in seven different Garage locations, we\u2019ve attracted a few luminaries who wanted to see the space. One of them is Lucas Rizzotto<\/a>, digital experiences designer, artist, musician, and technologist.<\/p>\n Mike Pell, Principal Design Lead for The Garage, sat down recently with Lucas in the Reality Room to experience first-hand and talk about his soon to be released project, Where Thoughts Go – a uniquely introspective, interactive, and community-based virtual reality world where you just might discover something of yourself in the audio reflections of others.<\/p>\n Mike:<\/strong> Tell me about your new project, Lucas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Lucas:<\/strong> Where Thoughts Go is an emotional, immersive social network. It’s also a bunch of other things. Still figuring out exactly what to call it, but it makes people cry.<\/p>\n Mike:<\/strong> Why did you create Where Thoughts Go?<\/strong><\/p>\n Lucas:<\/strong> I think that the internet is too much of a cold place right now. It connects people to information well, but it doesn\u2019t connect people to people – our humanity gets abstracted away in our online interactions, and this is mainly because preserving it was never a priority for the vast majority of technologists.<\/p>\n My priorities are to connect people emotionally through technology, and through those connections enable people to become a more thoughtful, intelligent and healthier versions of themselves. Replace addiction loops with growth loops. Create software that’s designed to be transformative, touching and magical. I made Where Thoughts Go because I love storytelling, technology and art. I kept working on it because I wanted to have that kind of impact.<\/p>\n
\nOur value metrics don’t come from how many minutes we steal from you a day, but from how much we have positively impacted your life after you finish a session. That makes both the internet and the Earth a better, more human, kinder place to live in.<\/p>\n