Presence before chat
The interface gives the assistant a body and a state before the text layer appears.
Audio-reactive AI orb
Orbi
A companion interface that responds with shape, light, and motion.
Project story
Why it exists.
Orbi works best when it feels like a presence first: a calm, voice-reactive surface with eyes, motion, and light before chat text appears.
The project explores a useful AI-interface question: what does an assistant feel like before it starts typing back? Here, listening, reacting, and presence are the interface.
The hidden control system still matters behind the capture: presets, session state, microphone energy, and WebGL tuning make the orb feel instrumented rather than decorative.
Direction
How the idea becomes usable.
Audio-reactive presence
Microphone energy, presets, and settings shape the orb as a living surface.
Quiet control depth
The demo can hide its panels for the portfolio while still keeping state, presets, and tuning underneath.
Build notes
Technical infrastructure.
Build Signals
WebGL / audio-reactive / voice UI
Working Surface
WebGL voice companion surface
Current Stage
Working WebGL prototype
Hosting Path
The public preview can ship as a static web build on Vercel, Netlify, or Cloudflare Pages. Heavier runtime assets should be compressed, cached, and lazy-loaded so the experience still feels instant.
