Inspiration

What if PokemonGO is also a social experience that encourages your curiousity?

So much of today's short form social media is about staying glued to your phone, passive browsing, and ever shifting attention - a leading cause of growing learning difficulties in the world.

CurioCity is a statement against every single aspect of the "doom scroll." It encourages you to go out into the world, to be a curious explorer, to make connections with people cross time and space, and to live and grow with what you have learned.

What it does

CurioCity is a Snap Spectacles Lens that turns everyday surroundings into a personal, social, AI-powered learning experience. It's built on four pillars:

Capture & Remix — Capture anything in your world with a two-hand pinch, and Momo, your AI learning partner, turns it into a short, surprising Curio Card based on a random interest of your choice. You can start a conversation with Momo about any card to ask follow-ups & learn more.

We kept noticing that the most memorable things we learn aren't the ones we sit down to study — they're the ones we stumble into. We designed the "remixing" of world capture and random interests based on a few findings:

• Intersection of two disciplines often bring unexpected discoveries

• Our interests are the best guides and windows through which to expand our understanding, and our world.

• Exploration and discovery naturally makes you a more curious learner - it's a constant positive feedback loop that makes the world more exciting for you.

This is the chemistry of learning: remix what you already love with what you'd never expect, and something new sparks.

Explore & Share — Cards are location-based and meant to be shared. Clap your hands together in front of your chest - a prayer gesture "discovers the world" - sending out a ping that sweeps your location and reveals a cosmos of cards left by you and others. Save, comment, follow, or share your own capture!

• When you find an interesting object, discover what others have learned about it - perhaps through an interest you never thought about before.

• When you visit a new place, explore it together with others who have come before you, sharing a moment across space & time. Or, if you are the one daring explorer who arrived somewhere no one had ever been - leave what you learned there as your mark for the world to witness.

Relive & Remember — A living, evolving Mind Palace in the palm of your hand, where all your captured and saved cards live. Momo organizes everything spatially - by topic, relevance, and what it remembers about you. The more you capture, the more Momo knows about your way of learning.

Long-term memory helps Momo grow into your best learning partner. Revisit cards based on location on a globe, walk around a 3D mind palace to explore your memories, or simply ask Momo to pull up cards based on location, a recent trip, or any subject of your choice.

Collect & Battle — Challenge yourself and learn together by battling your friends in a game of trivia. The questions are generated randomly from both player’s card deck, so the player with more cards and knows them better wins. This completes our gamificaiton loop - Capture, Collect, Battle. A sassy, audio-only AI game-show host reads each question aloud and reacts to your play — easing off when you're losing, getting spicier when you're ahead. Classic game-show rules: fastest finger answers first, wrong answers hand your opponent a steal.