Wall Flower

This is a solution for the modern person, who may want the feel of ambient social activity, but still be able to focus solely on their own concerns, and without any requirement for social performance.

It is a setup of bluetooth speakers installed throughout the house. They can really just be placed in the corners of rooms on the floor.

The authoring system requires some knowledge of the primary layout of houses; bedrooms, bathrooms, transfer areas (hallways, stairways), kitchens, living rooms.

Each 'episode' is pumping music to various genre's. And chatter of people at a party, with various personal dramas. The voices are mapped to specific areas of the virtual household, which are mapped based on functionality to the users house, by category. The virtual actors can move from area to area, although if large house is mapped to a small house, some rooms will have to do double duty, I e. Living room combined with family room, spare bedroom mapped to master bedroom.

Virtual actors and voice channels operate in priority, so if the main actors in a story all end up in the same room, the primary dialog will be loudest and the others more muted.

The episodes last 8 hours - they need to go at least from 10pm to 6am, to experience the change the that happens during that time, the witching hours that transform lives.

The actual user of this system can do anything. Cook. Eat. Read a book. They are not required and actually cannot interact anyways. But they are a part of the party. They don't need news about old men looking at national borders in new ways. Or discussion about when sickness will strike then next. What they want is fresh conversation, freshly generated, that they are in. And can dismiss.