You have entered the tunnel of the “floating fobs.”
Through the tunnel, you will see yourself and meet others, to look at, to listen to, to reflect, to un-expose and to float in-between, while being masked and displaced yet being here simultaneously.
Upon approval of using your camera, you could follow the prompt to interact with another address/camera, or only by yourself, by showing up in front of the camera, dodging, or using one hand to block the camera lens as the narrative proceeds.
As its temporary ending approaches, the protocol will open itself up for further experimentation for the camera nodes to float on.
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This is a multi-node real-time video protocol for nodes of cameras to make images and videos simultaneously, while being masked and displaced to another remote IP address—all through the tunnel and narrative of the virtual private network—connection as material, protocol as aesthetics.
This prototype was created with the PILL program of the Summer of Protocols. Work-in-progress notes were journaled and documented in the thread on this forum.
Made with WireGuard VPN Protocol, WebRTC video streaming with p5LiveMedia Library, WebSocket Protocol with Socket.IO, Node, Express and Nginx, p5.js Speech Library, DigitalOcean Server, Runway Gen-2, and some help with GPT… :)
Created by hua xi zi.
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This project is currently in the shape of a prototype and work-in-progress--further network configuration needed. The ultimate goal is to route its WebRTC connection (made with the p5LiveMedia library) through my WireGuard VPN Server, both self-hosted on a DigitalOcean cloud server located in Singapore, so that the peers’ IP addresses can be masked by the VPN’s Singapore IP address.