Light Years Apart Terms

An Interactive Experimental Short by Christie Neptune with Heidi He

Last Modified: March 14, 2025

Terms and Conditions / Privacy

Thank you for visiting this website! By screening this film, you are agreeing to the terms below. We refer to the "terms and conditions" and "privacy policy" outlined below as "terms." Please read carefully.

I. Authorized Users

  1. Age requirement; authority: In order to access this website and screen this film, you must be of legal adult age and have the legal capacity to form a legally binding agreement under applicable law.

II. Site Information

  1. Light Years Apart is a picture lock beta application with temporary color and sound.

  2. We reserve the right to update and make changes to this website at any time and without warning.

  3. This application includes AI-generated content.

III. License and Copyright

  1. Christie Neptune maintains all rights, interests, and copyright of the work (including but not limited to film, trailers, bonus materials, images, artwork, script, and code) on this website.

IV. Screening Modes

  1. You can screen this film in "Engagement Mode" or "Manual Mode." Please see below for more information.

V. Engagement Mode and Purposes of Biometric Use

  1. Light Years Apart is an interactive science fiction investigating varying processes of ‘looking’ and ‘engagement’ within cinematic spectatorship.

  2. In “Engagement Mode” this film utilizes biometric data and computer vision technology to posit multiple trajectories within a branching narrative structure.

  3. Within this framework, high engagement and retention provide access to varying degrees of the protagonist’s inner life and subjectivity. Low engagement and retention provide access to the bleak exterior of the protagonist’s inner life.

VI. Manual Mode and Mode Switch

  1. You can browse this website and watch this film without providing biometric information in “Manual Mode.”

  2. In “Manual Mode,” you can use your trackpad or mouse to navigate the film’s trajectory.

  3. You can opt out of “Engagement Mode” and switch to “Manual Mode” at any time during screening.

VII. How Will Spectator Biometric Information Be Examined?

  1. In beta mode, this application examines the spectator's eye direction, facial landmarks, spatial position, and movement to (1) measure user engagement and (2) control the film's trajectory.

  2. Your web browser will request permission to use your webcam and this application will provide prompts to calibrate your device before screening this film.

  3. Our algorithm utilizes your webcam and Google BlazeFace and FaceMesh Mediapipe APIs, application programming interfaces, to identify spectator eye direction, facial landmarks, spatial position, and movement.

VIII. Privacy Policy

  1. Our application does not store biometric information.

  2. Our application applies subtle adversarial perturbations including a slight blur and tint, over facial regions to balance accuracy and privacy.

  3. Google MediaPipe Solutions Preview API is an on-device machine learning API and is subject to Google API Terms of Service and Google API User Data Policy as specified in Google developer terms. It provides libraries and tools to employ machine learning techniques in our application efficiently. There is no server involvement in the machine-learning process for applications like facial recognition and landmark analysis.

  4. Surveillance and identity recognition are explicitly out-of-scope applications of Google BlazeFace and FaceMesh Mediapipe APIs and thus not enabled.

  5. Processing of personal or sensitive data using MediaPipe is subject to Google API Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

General

  1. This agreement outlines the terms and conditions of this website.

  2. You acknowledge that you have read this agreement and agree to the terms and conditions outlined.

  3. For more questions regarding this film and website, please contact Studio@christieneptune.com.

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