Zingcam vs FungiSync

Transform your simple photo prints into extraordinary video experiences with Zingcam - a camera app for your prints. Bring your special memories back to life with photos that speak! Zingcam is a camera app that helps you add videos and create stunning video experiences on your photo prints. Celebrate treasured memories and remarkable milestones in a way never seen before! Here’s how you can add Magic to your photos with Zingcam: - Scan any Photo & Add your Video! Choose your favourite photo and add your cherished memories to the scanned photo in the Zingcam app. - Record and Share! Loved watching your memory come alive? Record your video experience from the Zingcam app and share it with your friends and loved ones! - Re-visit your Memories anytime, anywhere! You can enjoy your Zingcam experiences in two ways: scan the print anytime and watch your memory come alive, or record and save your video experiences to view them again in the Zingcam app! - Have fun with your Prints! Turn your walls into a hub of interactive experiences with Zingcam! Scan and add videos to the photos on your walls and watch them come to life! - Get creative with Zingcam! Zingcam is crafted with the sole purpose of helping you take a walk down memory lane and bring you unlimited smiles! Get creative and create experiences for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Vacations, Daily Life, Milestones, and so much more! Let your creativity take flight with Zingcam and experience beautiful memories all over again!

*Device Compatibility: iPhone Pro (LiDAR-enabled) is required for this mixed reality app. *For the collocated multiplayer "handshake" experience: All phones need to be connected to the same home Wi-Fi 6 router. Set up the IP address of the server iPhone as the host IP address for both phones (IP address can be obtained in the Wi-Fi information on the phone). When connected, use the QR code image in the preview to anchor the location of all phones. Don't move the QR code during the experience session. The QR anchor code performs best at the size of 15x15cm. Project introduction: This app serves for the mixed reality participatory ritual artwork "FungiSync" first presented at DevCon 2024. In this experience, participants wear handheld, masquerade-style mushroom-decorated mixed reality masks. Each mask embodies a unique, psychedelic-like augmented view—a metaphor for technology-mediated pluriversal worldviews. Through handshakes, our most ancient protocol, participants sync, blend, and exchange distinct perspectives in mixed reality, mirroring the underground resource exchange of mycorrhizal networks' "Wood Wide Web." This artwork highlights how decentralized technology, such as Ethereum networks, can play a role in interweaving our increasingly fragmented world accelerated by centralized institutions' controlled ideology and technology. Utilizing HoloKit to transfer the iPhone into an immersive MR headset, this art experience brings actor-network theory to life through embodied experience, celebrating the interdependent collaboration of infinite worlds bonded by a decentralized web. It fosters a mycological-inspired entanglement awareness in today's deglobalizing world. Let's celebrate Mycopunks!