Splashcall is dedicated to the idea that we may need things to do while we talk to the people who are most important to us, and if we can’t be with those people physically, it doesn’t mean we can’t play a game together, play with materials together, or make something new together. We live in an age of omniscience and omnipresence. Each moment of each day could be a new journey in a world orchestrated through the internet.
It’s incredibly distracting.
When one is expected to constantly be on video calls with teams of eight or a rotating cadre of folks, relationships blur by at high speeds.
It can be hard to make time for the people in your life who have been there the longest. Everyone is so busy thinking about their own lives. Distracted endlessly.
Dyadic communication holds a secret: it’s the core substance of reality. Our minds are shaped by our relationships with the people around us, beginning with our mothers.
SplashCall is designed for calling one’s mother, having new surfaces to play upon, circumventing the barriers and preconceptions. You can play a game of chess, backgammon, sudoku, crossword puzzle, hangman, et all. You can also draw together in different ways or make a snowflake together or make sounds together.
As telepresence takes hold, there will naturally be many technologies which we rely on but begrudge. Technology can complicate our lives, distract us, and separate us.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Posted by charlie.