2024 · Client Work · LLM Metahuman Interface

The Voice of the Land

Role

Responsive Visual System & Code

Client

United Nations COP16

Industry

LLM Metahuman Interface

Team

Jason Carmel, Cole Peterson, Ilinca Barsan, Jonothan Hunt, Beth Rankin, Kerri O'Shea

Voice of the Land is a conversational AI application built for COP16 Riyadh, where a MetaHuman avatar responds to visitors in real time. The interface reads the topic of each conversation and transforms the visual background to match: water topics flood the screen in deep blue, desertification shifts it to cracked ochre, forest themes breathe in green.

How do you make complex climate conversations feel alive and responsive?

The UN needed an engaging way for conference attendees to explore land restoration and drought resilience topics through natural dialogue with an AI avatar. The installation needed to go beyond static presentations, creating a living, breathing interface that responds intelligently to the substance of each conversation.

Solar discussions trigger warm, radiant transitions. Water themes create flowing, liquid animations. Desert topics shift to sandy, textured effects.

I conceptualised and developed responsive visual systems that transform the interface background in real-time based on conversation topics.

Built performant sand text effects using SVG filters and CSS animations for the background, ensuring smooth 60fps performance on kiosk hardware, maintaining visual fidelity.

I designed and built the responsive visual system that drives these real-time environment shifts, coded the SVG sand particle title animation on load, and sourced the D-ID MetaHuman integration. Every visual state transition runs at 60fps on kiosk hardware via CSS animation and SVG filters. The installation ran live at the UN conference, facilitating thousands of climate conversations across the event.

Thousands of conversations. Visitors stayed longer when the environment responded to them.

Successfully deployed at COP16 Riyadh, the installation facilitated thousands of sustainability conversations. The responsive interface helped make complex climate topics more accessible and engaging — visitors spent significantly longer in conversation when the environment responded to their topics of interest, creating a more immersive and memorable experience.

A living interface.

Backgrounds that respond to meaning. A MetaHuman that listens. Climate conversations that breathe.

The Voice of the Land

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