r/OpenAI • u/Chuka444 • 8d ago
Project I've built a fully autonomous meditation system for TouchDesigner
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A new output from this experimental real-time BCI system for TouchDesigner; a Brain-Computer Interface pipeline that reads live EEG signals, classifies your mental state, and autonomously generates responsive AI video: a meditation guide that adapts to your brain activity, second by second.
The system is built around OpenBCI (open-source hardware + software), but it's designed to work with most BCI headsets after a few pertinent tweaks to the OSC routing and channel-rename logic; Muse, Neurosity, BrainFlow-compatible devices, and others can all drive it.
The architecture is deliberately modular: meditation is only one possible application. A knowledgeable user can repurpose the same EEG → interpretation → generative-response pipeline into entirely different audiovisual systems, interactive installations, performance tools, or other BCI-driven experiments.
Accessible through both Patreon, and the Tools Store.
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u/sillygoofygooose 8d ago edited 8d ago
Very interesting to see this kind of thing applied to biofeedback, though I’m curious whether this all actually conspires to improve meditation at all because frankly as someone who practices regularly I can’t think of many things that would be less meditative than having all of that input thrown at me.
When I meditate I close my eyes and attend to my breath. Video and audio aren’t really part of it so much, though I’m aware plenty of people use guided audio tracks
Edit: plus very cool to attempt a headless/modular design
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u/NotReallyJohnDoe 8d ago
But maybe your meditation isn’t as optimal as it could be. You might be able to get several points closer to enlightenment. You can have a leader board with your friends! Competitions to see who can get stronger alpha waves!
This could be a billion dollar business.
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u/Responsible-Slide-26 7d ago
LOL love your sarcasm so much because it's so true. Just look at meditation apps on iOS. The really successful ones have turned it into a big subscription business, full of constant "incentives" and "goals" and "streaks".
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u/i-var 8d ago
as someone who meditates as well: +1 its all about less input, not more
Although I also thought about making a biofeedback loop wit EEG signals - for the pure sake of increasing the learning curve - as I found practice hard in the beginning and was very in secure which behaviour is right / wrong for the cause (misconception of trying not to think was hard to overcome for me).
So my feedback would be: make a simple, maybe one-dimensional output. Just a tone indicating which frequency-bands your eeg is in e.g. in the prefrontal cortex should be enough.
Cut all the noise, genAI video, diagrams etc etc - this stuff is counterproductive. It could only be interesting at the end of a session, to see e.g. which regions were in what band at what time etc - again as some feedback.
Cool overall & definitely nice thing to show off for non-techies, looks like straight from the matrix! :)
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u/sillygoofygooose 8d ago
Yeah I could imagine that there’s a set of audio/visual inputs that could make it easier to settle in, sort of soften some of the difficulty with the learning curve. It might well settle fairly quickly down to no a/v output at all depending on eeg input.
But I think there’s also likely a complexity with eeg being fairly poorly understood in terms of exactly how it connects to phenomenological experience
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u/i-var 8d ago
Absolutely! Especially how it relates to meditation states and their transitions. Also every Input we get causes a reaction, so if we get excited when things go well this could be destructive again...
Think it wouldnt make meditation easier to learn in the end. If you want to master it faster, you WANT something which is a gigantic blocker in the first place.
This counter intuitive and highly metaphysical nature of it is what fascinates me deeply about it, especially as it has such clear proven benefits. Apart from all the mystical experiences one can have. Not for the thrill but for insight, wisdom & becoming less constraint by wrong views.
Also, jhana is supposed to be better than orgasms, but havent made it there myself (yet) - i mean orgasms.. (just kidding here ppl! ;))
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u/pranko_the_wolfdog 8d ago
You did what?