# Nicola Harvey

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Nicola Harvey](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/nicolaharvey)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/nicolakharvey/actual-size-step-inside
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/Gk1Ine5H8Qs
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4716

Most of us meet great paintings on a phone screen, where they all end up the same size and we only ever see them from outside. Actual Size solves both. It hangs 59 public-domain paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago at their real size, beside a person 1.70 metres tall, and it lets you step through the frame into the world the artist painted. My world is art, and this brings Meta's models into it to give back what a screen takes away: the scale of a work, and the feeling of being inside it.

To build each world, Muse Spark plans what sits in front of what, SAM 3.1 cuts each piece out, and the painting is rebuilt in layers. Before a scene hangs, Muse Wonder looks at it, reads the test results, and accepts it, repairs it with a small set of tools, or rejects it. The Not hung panel shows every scene it refused and why.

There's a resident artist room, and the first resident is me. Seed Phrase is eight works I made with Muse Image. Three of them you can walk right into: Muse Image painted the world on every side, Meta's DINOv2 depth model gives the paint its depth, and the brushstrokes open up around you as you walk. 

Visitors choose their building and guide, ask the guide for anything, see each painting's palette and pairings, leave their own perspective typed or spoken, and visit a lounge of guide books. It opens on Meta Quest, tested on Meta's emulator.

This is phase one, the foundation. With dedicated time, I'll finish the code for the full immersive experience, so stepping into a painting feels like being inside it. I'll hang more than 60,000 public-domain works from the Art Institute of Chicago's open collection at their real size, open the gallery to living artists who curate and add to their own rooms, and let visitors see what hangs well together and build their own mood palettes from the works they love. Shared perspectives will come with moderation and quality review built in, and every great work will open to step inside.

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