InstaTouch is a camera concept video made in response to the brief for Video Prototyping week. The brief asked us to imagine how one could create and preserve memories if one were handicapped by one of the five key senses - sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. We choose to work towards a concept that leverages a blind person’s sense of touch and hearing to record and relive memories. 

The core interaction of how the person would use the application was simple - we knew that the blind use touch and hearing with much more attention. How exactly that would play out in the prototype was an iterative process. Eventually, the team was really drawn to the spontaneity of a Polaroid camera. 

We set out to place some limits on the technologies that we could extrapolate. The concept prototype had to be portable. The buttons and interactions had to be highly tactile. Each interaction had to give clear feedback. Once the user takes a photo, what comes out is a depth-aware “photo” that is a highly detailed engraving of the scene in front of the camera. The camera detects optimal depth for a good scene and signals when it is the perfect time to take a photo.

For the video itself, we wanted to show the prototype in action in different scenarios - at a date, a work party or just playing with it at home.