ReelWorld

ReelWorld is a conversational visual knowledge network for photos, and its assistant, Reel, makes photos something you can ask questions of. You describe a photo in plain language, refine it (“not this one, from a higher angle”), and ask about any photo. Every answer comes with evidence: signs read exactly as written, whether a place is confirmed or only a candidate, and what Reel is unsure about. Reel checks photos by actually looking at them (a misty mountain versus a hazy one) and says honestly how many pass. Users connect their own photos to a world collection of openly licensed, credited photographs of Kenya through a ring diagram that explains every link, and can create short directed photo stories whose narration is checked against stored evidence. Built solo during the hackathon. The 132-photo collection was prepared before the event, and everything else is new.