Designing our app – Second Sight

Let's make an app that enables people to see new visual patterns, to animate and interact with these patterns, and to share them as pictures. The idea is simple and versatile. Anyone, from a child to a computer vision expert, can appreciate the patterns. Through the magic of computer vision on a mobile device, any user can more readily see, change, and share hidden patterns in any scene.

For this app, I chose the name Second Sight, a phrase that is sometimes used in mythology to refer to supernatural and symbolic visions.

At its core, Second Sight is a camera app. It will enable the user to preview, save, and share photos. Like many other camera apps, it will also let the user to apply filters to the preview and the saved photos. However, many of the filters will not be traditional photographic effects. For example, the more complex filters will enable the user to see stylized edges or even rendered objects that blend with the real scene (augmented reality...