Tech Fiction: INSTAEYE 2090

  • Victoria Onaiyekan

THE FUTURE OF INSTAGRAM PROBLEM We can get so carried away with capturing our moments for social media, that we forget to enjoy the experience, and live in the moment. We want to capture, edit and share every moment, but we don’t have the physical ability to document every single moment we encounter. Sometimes we miss perfect photo/video opportunities. It requires a lot of effort to capture each moment. SOLUTION A smart lens that automatically captures, filters, captions and shares moments in your day to social media for you. An additional plugin extension for Instagram. This is the Future Of Instagram, a companion device. Target Market: Over sharers, social media addicts. Now you won’t miss a thing, No need to get your phone out to capture these moments because we do it for you. Every moment captured.

“We don’t think our future as an experience, we think of our future as anticipated memories.”
–Daniel Kahneman

Experience Vs Memory
Insights/Inspiration for concept
I was inspired by a TED talk by Daniel Kahneman
  • Living in the moment vs capturing the moment
  • Experiencing self - Doesn’t care about documenting the moment, but living it. The feeling in the moment
  • Remembering self - Captures everything, the story you can tell or show to others. Recording the moment for the future.
  • A Need to capture or consume a moment all to create a visible memory, and share it.
  • We get satisfaction from capturing a moment to look back on and share, rather than the real satisfaction from experiencing the moment itself in real time.
  • We lack experienced happiness - we get from living in the moment.

THE EXPERIENCING SELF IS NOW DEAD!

RATIONALE
With the Instaeye 2090 we hope to give people the chance to live in the moment, whilst successfully capturing as much content as they can for social media; all with the help of technology. Our Smart lens uses Artificial Intelligence to automatically capture, filter, caption and share all of your experiences with the hope of making them Instagram worthy memories. The Instaeye 2090 is there so you don’t waste your experiences on trying to capture memories for social media. Now technology can do that for you, and capture more than you are even capable of capturing yourself.
Instaeye uses Artificial Intelligence to mimic the way the average person would capture, edit, caption and share images online.
Personalisation - Instaeye uses data to track your social media usage, how you interact online, the type content you have a preference for (most liked), and how often you use it -regulates how often Instaeye will share your content, making it more personalised to your usual online activity. Makes all experiences worthy of being fond memories.
Even makes the most of our least favourite experiences. (e.g. break ups - filtered to appear more theatrical than just sad)
Easy and comfortable to wear
Sensors - Detects the weather, helps Instaeye know if it is weather worth capturing photos in (Better weather means it more instagrammable)
The Chip collects and holds data - Instaeye can use the data to register information that will help document and share what best suits you.
Captures front and peripheral vision.

PRINT
One of the main motivations for Instaeye is that we want people to have fun, and focus on experiencing the moment rather than the next Instagram moment they want to capture. The posters and other advertising is about showing people having a good time, and living in the moment.
APP
Instaeye will automatically upload content to your Instagram account. However, there is also an Intsaeye app that shows you the content that has been captured through the day. This helps personalise your Istaeye content even further. You can dislike and like the images collected. This will help Instaeye have a better understanding of what type of content you favour.