Common Realm

"Seeing is believing,
but the feeling is the truth."

- Thomas Fuller










Eyes don’t tell the complete truth.  What we see with our eyes, is not what our brain always perceives.  A ‘true’ reality is an amalgamation of vision, memories, and emotions that render our present perception of the world.

To corroborate the idea of investigating brainwaves as a means to reinterpret reality, we looked at a study published in Cognitive computation that looks at how the neural correlates human emotional judgement, stimulated by auditory, visual, or combined audio-visual stimuli.  And the goal of the study was to demonstrate that EEG can be used as a tool to investigate emotional valence and discriminate various emotions.

‘Common Realm’ is a device that re-paints our vision with speculative layers that are seen by the mind through visualizing brain signals.

By taking frames from the input video, the sprites on the right denotes the spectrogram showing EEG, gaze tracking weights, and lastly the predictions.

The project aims to provoke a discussion that gives hierarchy to memories and sensory inputs other than vision to depict true perception in real-time.