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This Artist Filmed His Life With Snapchat Spectacles for a Year and Created a VR Time Machine - Gizmodo
Jul 11, 2020 3 mins, 14 secs
Time travel is one of those things that fascinate people.

Although time travel currently isn’t possible—thank God, as if humans needed another way to make a mess of things—this creator decided to do the next best thing: film his life with the Snapchat Spectacles 3 for a year and create a virtual reality time machine.

On Friday, Lucas Rizzotto, a virtual reality and augmented reality artist, debuted a YouTube video showing the process he went through to make a real-life “time machine,” so to speak.

The time machine would let him go back in time for one year, the entire year of his life that he recorded using the Spectacles, Snapchat’s camera glasses that record at 60 fps in 3D.

Rizzotto recorded a year living as a “digital nomad,” documenting his experience traveling through different countries around the world.

Friday’s video is the first episode of a series Rizzotto wants to do called, Lucas Builds The Future, in which he builds “something crazy” every episode using futuristic technology or concepts.

Rizzotto built his time machine in VR and carried out the project in three main phases: the control panel, the memory finder and the time travel effects.

And finally, the time travel special effects are all the “bells and whistles” aimed to spruce up the whole experience in VR, as Rizzotto didn’t want it to just be a straight replay of the video shot with the Spectacles.

When he finally finished building his VR time machine, Rizzotto sat down on a comfy chair with a blanket and pillows and took a look at some of his memories from the past year.

His delight and energy is a joy to watch, as are the time machine memories and effects in VR.

At that moment, Rizzotto makes some profound reflections about himself that I think are beneficial to anyone who watches the video.

“There are many days where I wake up and I don’t like who I see in the mirror, I don’t like the way he talks, the way he thinks, the way he looks,” Rizzotto says in the video.

It has let me appreciate myself as a separate person, and using the time machine made me realize that I liked the person I was watching.

And it took me building a time machine to see all of that, to see my own self-worth.”.

Gizmodo spoke to Rizzotto about his journey making the time machine and the video through Twitter direct messages.

We were especially curious about where he found the time to do this and how he felt about the idea of people using inventions like his to live in the past?

I’ve made some videos before to share some things I created and to teach people some stuff, but never anything like this.

But I always like to try new things and challenge myself!

So I made this and told myself that if the video got 100K views and 10K subscribers that I’d try doing this for a full year.

Gizmodo: So after watching the video, I understood that building the memory finder was the most difficult part of the project.

Primarily because I’ve never really done anything with large amounts of data before, so it felt like I was moving from the kid’s pool into the middle of the Pacific.

The first thing that I thought of when you mentioned this in the video was people reliving memories of others who aren’t in their lives anymore, from loved ones to ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, and how something like this can keep them from moving on

Going back in time I did get to spend time with people who aren’t around anymore in some instances, and honestly I just felt grateful I could feel their presence again

Gizmodo: What do you hope people take away from your video

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