Project Type:
MFA Student Work

Focus:
Interaction

Software Used:
Unreal Engine, Touchdesigner, Python

Date:
Spring 2026

Description:
WORK IN PROGRESS.

A interactive installation based on a dream I had.

Face Recognition Trigger

The main interaction of this project is for the subject to hide itself when the viewer is looking.

To do this I used a really simple mediapipe to integer value setup in Touchdesigner and then sent that out via OSC.

This demo has the value as intensity but in my more recent prototypes I only send out an on-off 1-0 value.

OSC Tester

I was having issues with Unreal not picking up my OSC signal. I (shamefully) vibecoded a small script to check my OSC output to ensure it was working.

IP Dilemma

I found that when running on one machine or multiple that in Unreal I needed to set the sending IP to 0.0.0.0 rather than whatever it actually was.