InMySkin

Background

Vision is often assumed to be stable and universal, yet millions of people experience the world through conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, or color blindness. These realities are difficult to communicate through static images or descriptions alone. The project emerges from the need to make invisible perceptual conditions experientially accessible, using immersive technology to bridge the gap between description and lived experience.

Process

The system was developed in Unity using real-time post-processing filters and shader-based visual transformations. Each visual condition was designed to balance perceptual accuracy with navigability, ensuring that the experience communicates limitation without preventing interaction. Iterations focused on calibration of blur intensity, field-of-view restriction, and color transformation matrices to produce perceptually convincing simulations.

Reflection / Impact

InMySkin demonstrates how immersive simulation can function as an empathy interface. By transforming invisible perceptual differences into embodied experience, the project highlights how technological mediation can expand awareness of diverse sensory realities.