To create his portal in time, Rizzotto wore Snap Spectacles—Snapchat glasses that record high-resolution stereoscopic 3D video—for a full year, while traveling the globe. Along with recording a year’s worth of video, a task that required a small mountain of hard drives, Rizzotto also developed the software that would allow him to navigate it. Which, for about three months, seemed like it was going to be an impossible task thanks to an apparent loss of metadata.
“It’s really hard to describe the feeling you get, reliving your own past,” Rizzotto says in the video as he navigates his memories. He adds that “You don’t just see the memory portal, you see everything around it, like the rush of memories you get when you smell food you used to eat as a child.”