Mindful Manifestation

From EEG to Virtual Reality

Duong Nguyen - 2019

Throughout millennia, the human mind has been attributed to the advancements of human society today. Architecture, likewise, a result of human wit and intelligence. This research takes a particular interest in the architecture that is, pre-conceived before its existence. From the inception of this research, it began with a particular interest in this design process, or creative. The objective, to develop a means for people to design using their mental imagination. The objective, while novel and realistic, demonstrate itself to be highly challenging in its enormous complexity. The investigation focuses now settles towards the development of an “integrated foundational” brain-computer interface (BCI) to design architecture through meaningful and intentional design interactions through human brain activities in real-time inside an immersive virtual environment.

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Through the motivation of the current spirit of the age, with increasing interest in artificial intelligence and creativity, this research poses the question of “can we design architecture using brain activities?”. This research question is answered with the development of a brain-computer interface in virtual reality (BCI-VR). The interface consists of a 14-channel EMOTIV EEG headset, and virtual reality, experienced through a head-mounted display (HMD) HTC Vive Headset. EEG data were collected from the CortexUI cloud database, transferred to interact with design contents in Grasshopper, then experienced in VR through Unity. Progress has exceeded as far as the production of architectural concepts, a result through the interaction between pre-designed architectural forms from various design scenarios. The research outcome formulates a foreground as part of an ongoing study towards developing a means of designing architecture directly through the “mind’s eye”. “I think therefore it is” is the ultimate goal. https://dara.digital/
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