Sun. Feb. 18, 11am meetup of experienced "makers" to set the stage for
getting things ready.
Monday 11am intros
Tuesday hack to complete research + journal article
Complete the paper by end of week Feb. 23rd.
Sat. Feb. 24, 2pm SwimOP social and present results + celebrate victory for all of us. Everybody wins!
We're going to have some fun over reading week hacking brainwaves, robotics, sleep, mindfulness, and tech to help those on the spectrum, and we'll publish our results in the inaugural issue of the new peer-reviewed journal for extended reality and spatial computing in health and health care.
It will be a kind of inverse-hackathon, i.e. not corporate-driven like most hackathons, but instead humanity-driven, and we'll do publications rather than prizes, i.e. the "hack" will be to write a journal article in the leading journal of XR (eXtended Reality) and spatial computing for the inaugural issue (already invited to write the article); getting something published has far more impact than a little corporate-sponsored prize.
It is a coopetition rather than a competition, i.e. we work together to create mindfulness with motors and mechatronics, and the world's most advanced brain-computer interface with the world's brightest thought leaders and experts on XR / XV (eXtended metaVerse).
Saturday Feb. 17 at 2pm you might like to join us for our social get-together and open-mic, each to introduce ourselves to the others at the Swimdock, and some of us will go for a dip in the lake, and swim over to the Swimdock and jump off the dock. See
https://SwimOP.com
Bring your friends, especially anyone who's a natural-born "maker" with lots of experience making and building things, as it is an opportunity to meet other like-skilled makers.
Sunday we'll get together the more experienced "makers" to prepare things and set the stage for others to join.
Emily, Shivanshi, and Mete will also give a tutorial and demonstration on how to SWIM out EEG (brainwaves) which, together with the Odrive, will form the basis of the mindfulness and biofeedback.
Please be sure to read this paper,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9209380
and also read up on ODrive,
as well as bring your SWIM if you've done the Instructable already.
Mann's MaSc students James Fung (now with Google) and
Chris Aimone, together with Mann, and others, co-founded
InteraXon
and raised $28,800,000. InteraXon's
Muse
product, now sold in Best Buy stores all across North
America and on Amazon.com, is known as "The King of
Wearables" (BetaKit), the #1 in wearables (PC Retail)
and "the holy grail for mindfulness",
("Muse 2
review: The world's best meditation tech just got even better"). Caption: Muse2 Launch day at InteraXon, 2018 October 30th.
See also Time-frequency analysis of visual evoked potentials using chirplet transform,
Cui, Wong, and Mann, Electronics Letters 41(4), p217-218.
While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Ryan Janzen founded a
transportation company (Transpod), raised $65,000,000 ($20,000,000
investment + 32,000,000 Euro grant), and also won the "Innovation of
the Year Award".
While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Raymond Lo (now at Harvard)
founded Metavision, raised $75,000,000, and created the world's
first extramissive spatial imaging augmented reality
glass,
based on the metavision/metaveillance
and wearable computing technology that Mann invented
during childhood [IEEE Computer 30(2), p25-32, February 1997;
USPTO 61/748,468, 61/916,773, and 20140184496]
using video feedback to sense sensors and visualize
their capacity to see. Caption: Raymond Lo and Steve Mann with Metavision eyeglasses. Caption: Metavision for visualizing vision sensors, and seeing their capacity to see.
Caption: One of Steve Mann's childhood inventions,
Metavision
(the vision of vision, sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense)
with the Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM).
In this early photograph, Mann has captured a camera's
capacity to "see", i.e. a visualization of vision.
More generally his ability to
sense sensors and sensing their capacity to sense allowed him to create
many other inventions in the area of vision, sensing, and sensors.
Metaveillance for sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense.
In this photograph we we see the sensory interference pattern between
two Shure SM58 microphones.
WearTechTM
45 years of wearable augmented reality computing:
WearTechTM since 1974.
WearTechTM, WearCompTM, WearCommTM, and WearCamTM
(Wearable Technologies, Computation, Communication, and Sensing)
research, consulting, public speaking, inventing, products,
and philosophy.
WearTech is one of four main research thrusts, together with:
Sousveillance; Suicurity; and Humanistic Intelligence.
The Birth of Wearable Computing: 42 years of Augmented Reality.
(Left-to-right):
Steve Mann, age 12, Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM) in 1974;
Stephanie Mann, Age 9, Robot for visualizing ElectroMagnetic Wave Propagation;
Jayse Hansen, Hollywood's #1 UI designer (now a Meta employee) with Meta Glass;
Metasensing (visualizing vision and sensing sensors and their capacity to sense).
ECE516 is based on mathematical frameworks that use
Integral Kinematics and Integral Kinesiology and the time-integral of distance:
Absement (Absition)
Wearables + IoT = Veillance = SMARTWORLDs = Workshop at Stanford 2015 Jan 16:
http://wearcam.org/tei2015/
Spaceglasses are the ultimate
meta-sensor == a sensor that can sense sensing itself. More generally,
Meta can function as the device of devices, by being your plenary form
of interaction with the "SMARTWORLD"...
more detailed description.....
(Visualizing Vision, Seeing Sight, and Sensing Sensing with the
Meta Spaceglass)
Wearable Computing (underwater wearable computer with Brain Computer Interface shown in picture); quote: "Steve Mann, the great Canadian at the origin of what we can now call wearable computing."
To see presentation on sousveillance at DIY Citizenship conference,
scroll ahead to
27:00 (and watch to about 50:00) and then scroll ahead to 1:36 (and
watch to about 2:05) at
this link.
These five states-of-matter correspond to the five Classical Greek Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Idea ("Quintessence" meaning "fifth" element
which we realized
using Thought Technology EEG instruments).
Immersed Music concerts
explored the immersion of these five elements in both water and air:
Solid, Liquid, Gas
Plasma
Informatics
Guitar, H'phone, Flute;
Plasmaphone;
Synth/EEG
("Earth", "Water", "Air");
("Fire");
("Idea");
Other upcoming concerts featuring hydraulist Ryan Janzen:
Pedestrian Sunday in Baldwin Village - Sunday, September 16th!
car-free street festival,
Baldwin Street between Beverly and McCaul Streets.
The theme for this final event of the summer in Baldwin Village is
`Tomorrow'. "What do you see for Baldwin Village in the future? Given
the huge arts community we hope to come up with a fun, futuristic
vision for the street. Visionaries welcome!"
Featuring...
· Gypsy Rebels - Authentic Gypsy Music
· Richard Underhill - Juno Award Winning Jazz Great
· Steve Mann Ensemble - International Hydraulophonist, Musical
instrument using pressurized water
· irieband - Spirited Reggae Band
· Mz. Mosea and Band - Dynamic Soulful Singer
· Max Woolver Blues Band - Grassroots
· Chris Bezant & Craig Saltz Duo - Gypsy Jazz-Django Reinhardt Style
· Usmic Music - Yoshi & Chie Yamano - Guitar, Digeridoo, Sitar, Vocals
· Jim Reid - Guitar and Vocals
· Ardene Shapiro - Guitar and Vocals ... and many more Guest Artists
· Community Think Tank - What's your vision for the future of Baldwin
Village ? ...with Michael J.
· Baldwin Village Film Fest - Free Movies on the Street. Bring
blankets and pillows ...we'll supply movies & popcorn
· Children's Events :) - games, art & crafts, music, face painting and
lots more
· Self Guided Walking Tour of Baldwin Village - present to the turn of
the century
· International Delicious Food ...And a swell time for all !!
Time: 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm
For more information visit:
www.pskensington.ca
Wheras pianos respond to velocity (hit the key faster to make it louder)
and organs respond to displacement (position of the key),
hydraulophones
respond to absement.
The word "absement" derives from the words "absence"
and "displacement".
I will attempt to explain the concept of absement by way of the
following simple example:
Consider a 5-hour train ride that takes you 500 miles directly away from your
home, in a straight line, to another destination where you stay for 5 hours
and then return.
Suppose you want to stay wirelessly glogged
into your home computer at a "roaming" communications cost of $1/mile/hour.
For simplicity, assume a linear long-distance rate, i.e.
$1/hour when you're 1 mile away, $2/hour when you're 2 miles away,
$3.14/hour when you're 3.14 miles away, etc..
The total cost of your online communications is $5000, since the
absement (time-integral of displacement) is 5000 mile hours (1250 mile hours
on the way to your destination, plus 500 miles * 5 hours stay = 2500 mile
hours, plus 1250 mile hours of absement during the return trip).
The middle plot shows Displacement. The first 5 hours are spent in the
train going at velocity 100mph (miles per hour) away from home.
The area under this triangular part is 1/2 five times 500 mile hours,
which is 1/2 times 2500 mile hours, i.e. 1250 mile hours.
The next 5 hours are spent at your destination, 500miles from your home,
where you pay $500/hour for 5 hours, for a cost of $2500.
Staying online during your return trip costs you another $1250.
Your total cumulative running cost is the area under the middle plot
up to a particular point in time. This integral is called absement
and is shown on the top plot.
Each of the three plots is the time-derivative of the plot above it:
Make music with water!!
Learn how to play an instrument that uses water instead of air!
Take a look and hear for yourself.
Discover a fun and new way to learn music by using water whistling through
small openings in a pipe. View a children's version of the
hydraulophone.
Meet the inventor, U of T Professor Steve Mann, who will demonstrate
on "Nessie", the hydraulophone.
Music can make a splash, so we ask that children bring a swimsuit and towel.
The activity will take place at the Athletic Centre,Teach Pool.
There will be change rooms available.
(link to PDF)
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picture by Marc De Mouy
View Steve Mann's profile
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(Instructables.com)
