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Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/01/emotiv-eeg-headset-hacked-into-vr-trapeze-act-lets-you-fly-like/#comments


Emotiv EEG headset
hacked into VR trapeze act
lets you fly like Superman

By Sean Hollister
posted Mar 1st 2011 10:35PM




Last year, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students built a virtual reality contraption that let them soar through the sky, held aloft by a trapeze harness and seeing through HMD-covered eyes. This year, they're controlling it with the power of their minds. For his master's thesis, project leader Yehuda Duenyas added an Emotiv headset -- the same one controlling cars and the occasional game -- to make the wearer seemingly able to levitate themselves into the air by carefully concentrating. Sure, by comparison it's a fairly simple trick, but the effect is nothing short of movie magic.



[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yGvsDD50cb8[/youtube]
Uploaded by eameres2 on Feb 24, 2011


Yehuda Duenyas, AKA XXXY, is an MFA student in RPI's MFA program. His project, Ascent, uses EEG controlled performer flight as its centerpiece. Lauren controls her "ascent" by concentration read by an Emotive EEG headset. Here's a little look behind the scenes.

Among other technologies, it employs OpenSound Control (OSC) for much of its inter-program communications.

Aloysius J. Gleek:



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Joined 1 year ago
xxxy is artist Yehuda Duenyas.

He creates venues, experiences, productions, events, and systems that reenvision how audiences engage with live experience.
 
With an extensive background as a theater artist and director, he has custom-built numerous venues around NYC including a jewel-box theater in a downtown storefront, an indoor amusement-ride in a Brooklyn warehouse, and a scale model of an early 20th c. vaudeville theater in the basement of a deserted deli off Times Square.

He is currently conducting research in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is developing a new body of interactive performance systems which fuse playful tropes of theater with experimental gaming, simulation, engineering, and cognitive science.
 
He is a founding member and co-artistic director of the multi award-winning collaborative The National Theater of the United States of America (ntusa.org).

Sophia:
That sound just amazing.... I WANNA DO THAT. Please let it come back in September.

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