FathomVerse
FathomVerse empowers anyone with a smartphone or tablet to take part in ocean exploration and discovery.
Welcome to FathomVerse. Now available for download on the App Store and Google Play, FathomVerse allows players to interact with real underwater images to improve the artificial intelligence that helps researchers study ocean life. The game combines immersive imagery, compelling gameplay, and cutting-edge science to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers.
Scientists are collecting massive amounts of images and video to study marine life and assess ocean health. AI can help researchers analyze this deluge of visual data more efficiently. Before AI can be used for ocean exploration, machine learning models need to be trained to identify ocean animals. FathomVerse, a new mobile game, seeks to address this challenge by engaging ocean enthusiasts around the world to help review and label images so AI can correctly recognize ocean animals.
“With an enormous challenge comes an enormous opportunity: How do we scale our capacity for analyzing valuable data about the ocean while realizing a new and inclusive vision for ocean exploration and discovery? By combining expertise in ocean science, human-AI interactions, and gaming, FathomVerse offers a solution,” said MBARI Principal Engineer Kakani Katija, who led the development of FathomVerse.
To develop FathomVerse, Katija and MBARI software engineers collaborated with game design experts &ranj Serious Games—a Netherlands-based game development studio focused on positive behavioral change through play—and Internet of Elephants—a nature tech enterprise based in Kenya focused on rekindling relationships between people and wildlife.
