The memory feathers out at the edges as it encroaches on real space, but inside the core of the experience the image is clear.Īs McHugh’s demonstration showed, Wist memories can be experienced individually or shared immersively with friends and family. In his real living room, McHugh can approach the memory for a closer look. Overlapping with the real environment, a 3D video of his child as a baby pops up against a wall in his living room and the sound of infant laughter fills the space. After he dons a VR headset, a live feed of the immersive environment is screenshared to my computer. While explaining this process in a video call, McHugh showed me some of his own memories through Wist. Once processed, the users can either step into a Quest VR headset or look through their phones screen to see the VR or AR memory overlapping with their real environment. McHugh says that happens through collecting 3D data from the initial video, including depth, color, and audio information. Had Wist existed when McHugh was in middle school, here’s how things could’ve been different: The Wist app works by first capturing a video through the app on a user's iOS smartphone and then transforming the 2D images into an immersive, 3D experience. We have some photos and videos, but it’s not the same as being there… and she never got to meet my kid.” “I have some memories from that time, but I don't remember her terribly well. “My grandmother died when I was in middle school,” McHugh said. McHugh, CEO and co-founder of the app, explained to Motherboard that Wist is targeting the feeling that its namesake, wistful, evokes: longing and regret. Andrew R McHugh hopes he can close in on this gap with a new app called Wist, which promises to let users capture videos on their phones and transform them into 3D, immersive memories viewable either via their phones with AR (augmented reality) or with a virtual reality headset.

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