BaybayinXR - Pre-Philippine Writing System in XR - Oculus Launch Pad Project - 2018

In 2018, I participated in Oculus Launch Pad, and my project was BaybayinXR.

This is my name in Baybayin created by Kristian. Photo taken at Mozilla San Francisco office, where I briefly co-worked there during the Women in AR VR and AI cohort. 

Here I partnered with my friend, pre-Philippine writing systems (Baybayin) expert, Kristian Kabuay to create an educational app and creative storytelling experience. 

Here you can draw Baybayin with your controller (similar what is now an easy tutorial to create in Apple Vision Pro).

The story we told was of Malakas and Maganda (the first man and woman) coming from the split bamboo, a Philippine mythological story. 

While this project was brief, it was deeply meaningful in terms of cultural experience. Had we more time and funds, we would have scaled this so more people would learn Baybayin and would have been able to create a 3D dataset based on gestures capturing the data that people would use to create each of the stroke characters, making it the first novel dataset that both does cultural preservation, but also is creative and at the nexus of AR VR MR XR/spatial computing and AI.