Research Questions
There are two core research questions within the Funiki project:
- What is the breadth and depth of object-based audiovisual ambient experiences?
- How can AI be used to support the creation of ambiences?
The first research questions is related to human perception. Breadth is the range of ambiences we can convincingly construct. For example, can we convince somebody there is a sun shining over head? Whereas depth is the fidelity of the experience. This is the extent to which ambiences feel like they have tangible presence in physical space.
When it comes to the use of AI, one of the primary goals of Funiki is to support creators. In particular, non-technical users. We want any user to be able to prompt our system to construct an ambience. AI serves as an additional tool that needs to be iterated on and refined along with the rest of Funiki.