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Open-source wearable AI - Wikipedia 2044

The following essay is a fictional Wikipedia article set 20 in the future, discussing advancements in wearable AI systems, with a particular

Big Brother Chat

AI is the newest tool for surveillance and censorship Try it out! Synopsis Encrypted telecommunication platforms, such as Signal, are a...

DIY AI Combadge Pin - Wearable AI for <$50 (Ongoing)

We are working on a DIY AI wearable. It is meant to provide a cheap, customizable alternative to startups like Humane or companies like...

Conceptual Tales - Learning Through AI-Generated Analogies from Story Worlds

How can we harness the power of artificial intelligence and narrative to create a more intuitive and engaging learning experience for...

Enact - Augmenting Relationships Through AI-Mediated Role-Play

All problems are interpersonal relationship problems. Welcome to Enact - role-play relationship problems with your friends, augmented by AI.

GameChanger: Who Could We Be?

The most powerful human ability is the ability to change ourselves. Overview GameChanger is an experimental narrative-based framework...

Emothesia: interoception and interpersonal senses

Made possible through the Magic Leap + OpenBCI Emotibit / Apple Watch Overview Emothesia is a sensory augmentation system that interprets...

Haptic Ring

Introduction We’re building a small non-invasive sensory addition ring for sensing magnetic fields. Equipped with a magnetometer to...

Imagination Engine I: Generating Abstract Art through EEG

Overview Is mind reading becoming a reality? Recent research suggests that what transpires in our brains might not be as concealed as...

The Empathy Machine: A Play between Electromyography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Overview & Purpose Imagine you can embody someone so well, such that when they feel something, you can feel it too. People with...

2022 - 2023 Recap

Symposiums, hackathons, art installations, residency programs, and engineering projects: our founders Alice Cai and Aida Baradari reflect...

LimbX: an AR controlled supernumerary limb

Aida wearing LimbX Prototype 3 on her back Overview How do we control an arm easily that does biologically not belong to us?...

AtomXR: the first natural language driven, in-HMD application dev tool

Alice, a team-lead for the AtomXR project, demoes AtomXR for a class at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Overview...

ControlXR: a universal haptic interface for AR/VR devices

Introduction There are currently 4 main interactions and controllers in virtual and augmented reality systems: VR controllers, haptic...

Low-cost AR: affordable, open-source, and highly functional smart glasses

Current version of the AR glasses. Overview The Problem Current commercial AR glasses cost upwards of hundreds of dollars and have little...

XRAgents: dynamic, open-ended conversational agents for digital worlds

Overview Our current extended reality worlds lack consistent synchronous interaction from users and therefore tend to feel empty. From...

The Imagination Machine: multimodal human-AI storytelling

Note: this system was built before the release of DALL-E 2 & chatGPT, and thus uses older models. Overview Machine learning (ML) for...