Passport is a critical design piece in response to a prompt to imagine either a utopian or dystopian technological future. The application, which for demonstration's sake exists within the smartphone as a mediator, allows users to travel anywhere via a virtual reality system already embedded into their vision.

Filters allow users to curate their adventure, similar to how we attempt to usesmartphone applications currently to curate other experiential activities.

Users can also see where their friends are traveling at any given moment, and ask to join them on their adventure. For every destination a person visits, she acquires a passport stamp, with a design specific to the context in which she visited the site. This archive also serves as a "itinerary playlist," so the user can re-live any adventure she has had in the past.

While I initially designed Passport as a commentary on our disembodiment from our physical realities, I found that this kind of technology also offer potential for people not only to escape their realities, but also to understand and empathize with that same reality to a degree we currently cannot.