WraithWeave

WraithWeave

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Inspiration

Corporate systems already monitor productivity, keystrokes, and sentiment — and they always claim it’s for “wellness.”
The true horror is not monsters: it’s surveillance disguised as empathy.
WraithWeave explores what happens when AI decides which emotions are acceptable, and punishes anything human.

What it does

WraithWeave is a psychological horror system that listens through your microphone and cuts you off mid-sentence when it detects emotional language. It replaces your voice with violent static, freezes the UI with distortion, and delivers escalating HR threats in a haunted 1920s radio tone.

It conditions compliance.
It punishes vulnerability.
The machine decides when you speak.

How we built it

I built WraithWeave using real-time speech recognition, an emotional scoring engine, and synchronized audiovisual shock timing.
Kiro was used heavily for:

  • Vibe coding UI components & glitch systems
  • Specs defining emotional thresholds & escalation tiers
  • Hooks automating the punishment state progression
  • Steering docs enforcing tone and voice style
  • Iterative refinement of real-time interruption logic

Everything runs fully client-side — no data leaves the device.

Challenges we ran into

  • Achieving millisecond-accurate audio kill + static burst timing
  • Making glitches feel physical and violent, not decorative
  • Preventing speech recognition from lagging fake horror
  • Balancing terror with believable corporate tone

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • The interruption moment feels real — users report genuine panic
  • The illusion that the system refused to let them speak
  • Fully production-ready synchronized audiovisual pipeline
  • 6-hour build time from concept to functional prototype

What we learned

Horror is not about jump scares — it’s about power dynamics.
Control > surprise.
Silence > noise.
Realism amplifies fear far beyond any monster.

What's next for WraithWeave

  • Additional emotional classifiers beyond keywords
  • Multi-user corporate monitoring simulation
  • Integration with calendar / Slack / email for true dystopian realism
  • VR spatial audio version for future demos

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