At one point or another, who hasn’t had a dream in which you could fly, simply by thinking about it? [Yehuda Duenyas, aka XXXY] is currently working on a project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which can allow you to do just that.
As part of a thesis project dubbed the “Infinity Simulator“, he has constructed a system that allows people to fly about using the elaborate rigging system at RPI’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. His project allows users to glide through the air, walk up walls, and otherwise live out their flying fantasies, with mere thoughts.
An EEG headset is placed on the user, along with other wearable sensors which enhance the audio and visual experience of the person in flight. With enough concentration, the rigging system sweeps people off their feet, sending them soaring anywhere their mind desires. It sounds a bit like pretending to be Superman while using The Force to us, however the installation is described on the EMPAC web site as a “live-action stunt show crossed with a video game.” Either way, sign us up!
Hopefully we will see some video of the completed project in the near future, but in the meantime keep reading to see a behind-the-scenes preview of the flying rig in action.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvsDD50cb8&w=470]
Bring on the holodeck!
More hovering than flying, but still cool. Especially for early testing.
Hook up some video screens, fans/blowers, and let me go faster for the full effect and I’ll take two.
very cool…
but their site uses quick time :( ick
finally… something interesting in the EMPAC (heard of in the outside world)…
That was the most boring video of the coolest thing I’ve seen EEG used for. Which is kind of a shame.
Lawnmower man, amirite?
Just don’t start thinking about falling…
can’t it move in x/y? kind of a lame flying set up if it can’t
you can’t think in 3d?
don’t really need the sound of it but it does add to it
i’m sure they could make this really fun and cool
Still doesn’t justify spending $250 million on an arts building that serves about 50 students at an engineering and science school.
So he connected a winch to an off-the-shelf commercial EEG?
Do we really have any proof that she’s actually controlling it?
Also: spandex. It’s a privilege, not a right…
Also also: “XXXY”? You’ve got to be joking.
it is my limited understanding of the tech behind eeg controlled anything is basically you can only really get left/right readings of brain activity, basically when they are used in a wheel chair setting the user can only command left/right/stop. So basically I don’t think they can accomplish more than left/right movement or up down in this particular application. Just kind of guessing since I read an article the other day about the left/right/stop mind control gizmos.
neat I managed to track down the article…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217124859.htm
So you know….think happy thoughts.
I’s just a bunch of geeky guys looking fore an excuse to get a chick in spandex hanging over them.
So how long til they add Kinect, I wonder…
It turns out “The Secret” works better with a EEG
Repost. Peter Pan did this years ago.
@dbear, I agree. This is more like the X-Men Action Room though.
We are getting very close to the holodeck technology, but not there yet. This is like Black & White television compared to High-Definition, 3D Digital, Internet ready television.
Did anyone think of Goku explaining how to fly? “You just need to concentrate really hard.”
“IT’S NOT WORKING!”
“Relax and feel the energy flow though you.”
Damn I remember actually trying with Goku’s explaination.
@ZeUs
for me it was first Superman with the “up! up! and away!!!”, and then later it was the Greatest American Hero super suit, three running steps and a leap… neither of those work, not even with a decent cape tied around your neck, sigh…
this is a scam they are using cables LOOK CLOSELY