🐳 About the Project

A speculative, immersive, digital underwater museum. The project focuses on anthropogenic noise pollution affecting underwater life, by analyzing selected data produced by maritime traffic in the Pacific Ocean. Algaeia is presented as a work in progress developed during the DODO Hackathon: it would like to be an invitation for visitors to dive into a speculative underwater museum, where it is possible to approach the artifacts and listen to the noise produced by ships crossing the Pacific Ocean.

In this digital environment, the objects represent both visualization and sonification of selected data by the dataset Pacific Sound (https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2016.7761363). The project would like to raise reflections about anthropogenic activities affecting aquatic environments, creating awareness about noise pollution, often inaudible to humans, an attempt to make more visible and hearable its impact on non-human species.

Developed during the DODO Deepwaters of Digital Ocean Hackathon 2022.

🎯 Methods

How to run:

• Go to this link

• Make sure you have your audio turned on

• Dive into our immersive VR Museum

• Adjust the presets in the sidebar to generate an environment

Technologies & tools:

• Blender

• A-Frame

• Streamlit

Dataset: MBARI Pacific Sound

J. Ryan et al., "New Passive Acoustic Monitoring in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary," OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, 2016, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2016.7761363.

🙌 Results & Final Presentation

Check out the slides here.

🏆 Awards

Deepwaters of Digital Oceans (DODO) Hackathon - 1st Place

✨ Team

• Indiara di Benedetto

• Sara Rutz

• Nathanya Queby S.