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Inspiration

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1) In the future, will humans seek out personal/spiritual advice from humans or from AI? Given the fact that AI has much more memory and processing capabilities than humans do, which would give more accurate results?

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2) Will AI eventually be able to mimic human spirituality? 

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I have always wanted to create technologies that enable humans to express their spirituality. In my opinion, the combination of MR (Mixed Reality)+ BCI (Brain Computer Interface) is a great way to closely mimic spiritual experiences.

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I have interviewed and researched hundreds of spiritualists in South Korea and the United States, which has given me a sense of how to replicate these spiritualists’ experiences. Taking the courses at ITP related to MR and BCI have provided me with the skills needed to bring my vision to reality.

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I predict that in the future, AI and humans will coexist on a spiritual level. In the future, I think that the line between human and machine will be faint. Perhaps we will live in a world where humans will be augmented with technology, similar to the idea of cyborgs. In this case, human emotional capacity will be combined with the AI’s computation and memory advantage. Psychics are just a small part of overall spirituality. For the purposes of my project, I have decided to narrow my efforts on psychics. These psychics make predictions and give advice based on intuition. I am interested in what exactly constitutes this “intuition,” and if we can ever model this using technology.

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HoloWAVE Experience Walk Through

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1. Audience watches a client meeting with the psychic, who is wearing the HoloWAVE headset.

 

2. The psychic asks the client for their name.

 

3. The psychic says “search”, which activates HoloWAVE’s voice recognition functionality. HoloWAVE then finds all digital records of the client, such as driver’s license, social media activity, and professional history. The amount of information found is determined by the psychic’s level of concentration. This information is displayed on the external screen.

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4. Psychic says “future”, which compiles all of the client’s information and makes a prediction about the client’s future, using AI algorithms. The more the user focuses, the more accurate the prediction is.

 

5. Based on this information, the psychic gives life advice to the client. Machines do not have the capability for empathy, so the final moral/value judgement is made by the human.

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6. What the client is experiencing in the HoloWAVE headset is projected on an external projector so that an audience can follow along the psychic experience.​ These are images that the psychic sees superimposed on the external reality (i.e. real/present world).

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7. The vibrating chairs and fans provide added realism to the experience. For instance, if the client's past involved disastrous events, such as an earthquake, the chair will shake and vibrate.

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8. Images are also projected into a crystal ball for the client to see. This only consists of the images of the client's past and future, and not the external reality.

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