December 12, 2024
@ NYVR Meet up
Hillary presented Synch.Live at the NYVR meetup in NYC, alongside some fascinating presentations from innovators in the immersive space, including DJ Manny Flyiso, Mathieu Beaulieu, Ben Erwin, Jay Miolla, and Haseeb Musa. Shout out to DJ Smith for organizing!
November 15 and 16, 2024
@ Los Angeles Music Center
More than 250 people played Synch.Live during Night Games in Los Angeles at the LA Music Center. We had some fantastically creative and joyful groups, like this group of friends that spontaneously choreographed a sea anemone-like organism with moving parts.
November 16, 2024
@ Rip Space, Los Angeles
Rip Space opened its doors and booted up the screens for a cocktail party from 3-5pm with Visions 2030 to celebrate Synch.Live, a project incubated through Visions2030’s Imaginator Start-Up.
November 15, 2024
@ ASU, Los Angeles
Hillary presented Synch.Live to game developers as part of the Opening Keynote Roundtable, facilitated by Kamal Sinclair and Sam Roberts.
October 29, 2024
@ Cooper Park, Brooklyn
Wonderful to be outside and under the stars! Thanks to Katherine Thompson, Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, and Kim Fraczek, Sane Energy Project, for hosting us!
October 10, 2024
@ Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute
Great play test at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. Thanks to Daphna Shohamy, Codirector of CU’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and her engaged ZI community of researchers.
September 29, 2024
@ A.R.T New York Theatre
Tested new light behaviors, soundscapes and responsive sound!
August 18, 2024
@ Studio G05
Tested new game scenarios, including Play Fish! This group formed a bait ball to protect itself from the predator.
July 2024
Engineering improvements
We improved the tech to to make Synch.Live more plug and play for the game operator and enabled responsive sound and responsive visuals. Can’t wait to test new features!
May 30, 2024
@XR Guild New York
Great experience play testing
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Thank you to the XR Guild for hosting us!
April 11, 2024
@ Dare to Fail Gloriously
Great vibe at the DTFG talk and demo! Thanks to James and Steve for inviting us and to Kelsey for hosting us at Prime Produce!
April 2024
@ The Studio
Built eight new hats, bringing the fleet to 20! Looking forward to play testing with larger groups later this month.
March 26, 2024
@ XR Guild New York
Artist talk and intro to Synch.Live, at the NYU Tandem School of Engineering, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Great mix of technologists, artists, architects and experts in spacial computing.
February 28, 2024
Our academic paper is out!
Paper demonstrates that winning players experience higher connectedness to others.
Read the preprint
February 21, 2024
@ The Lower Case
Curious, playful, engaged! So thrilled to playtest with an amazing group at this immersive performing arts space in Lower Manhattan. Thanks to Dustin for inviting us!
Februrary 17, 2024
@ Abrons Art Center
Play tested new game scenarios in the Experimental Theatre. Great day - learned a lot!
February 7, 2024
@ The Lower Case
Tested improvements and calibrated the algorithm. Even under test conditions, it’s exciting and surprising every time!
January 13, 2024
@ A.R.T./ New York Theatres
Tested the new technology in midtown Manhattan with two dozen friends. The ultra wide band edition works!
June 19 - 21, 2023
@ The Santa Fe Institute
Poster presentation at the Santa Fe Institute’s Collective Intelligence Symposium.
See the poster
June 22-24, 2024
@ New York University
Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness at New York University.
See the poster
June 18-19, 2022
@ Great Exhibition Road Festival
We ran Synch.Live with 20 groups of 10 participants at Imperial College London and proved that a group of people can coordinate non-verbally to solve a task with a collective feedback mechanism.
June 12, 2022
@ Festival of Communities
We ran Synch.Live at the Festival of Communities at Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End campus with 10 groups of 10 participants.
May 2022
The MagPi Magazine
Great feature on Synch.Live in the official Raspberry Pi magazine. Rob Zwetsloot interviews Hillary about combining art and brain science with Raspberry Pi. Read the article
April 7, 2022 @
Institute for
Data Science and Computing
Hillary and Daniel present Synch.Live at the University of Miami, as part the Distinguished Lecture Series. Catch the replay