Explanation

“POV: You wake up as a miner in 1920s Philadelphia.” It’s Thursday in 2025—I'm eating a tuna poke bowl while an AI video on Instagram stirs an inexplicable longing for a past my parents weren’t even alive in. This sensation—termed anemoia by John Koenig—captures our modern capacity to empathize with bygone eras.

In the interior of the amygdala , I explored how to craft immersive worlds using VR, Unity, and machine learning to evoke this feeling and observe how it affects mood and memory. Utilising Machine Learning, the world tracks your emotional state through a series of interactive cues. Lighting, color grade, music and pacing gently shift in response.