Step 1 is an Expansion Pak loaded into the BrainFire Launcher program that let's you use your brainwaves to control multimedia games, interactive movies, training tools and is a new form of human-computer interaction. Use Step 1 with the IBVA System and you're in control of unique visual and audial experiences.
There are 7 main sections to Step 1: Clay Movies, The Gym, Rate Control Factory, VR Brain
Machine, Plant Personalities, Training, and Dream Plays. Each section uses brainwave (or
other bio-electrical) data to perform a specific function (i.e., game play, movie control,
brain training, etc.)
Following is a brief summary of each.
If your brainstates aren't where they should be you might get a Death Scene!
Mind meld with the medium!
Your brainwaves can interactively control (mold) the flow of movies "on
the fly". Thusly called "clay movies". You can sit back and
see what type of movie evolves from your brain activity or actually attempt
to mold a movie using specific thoughts or emotions. Step 1 provides sample
movies and scripts that guide the flow.
A great form of passive or active interactivity, Clay Movies allows a viewer
to choose and watch a movie that changes its story line or character development,
etc. depending upon the activity of the viewer. This is an excellent technology
when paired with cable, phone, wireless and MPEG compatible systems and services.
Every scene in a Clay Movie can watch your current brainwave activity and make
scene change decisions on the fly based on a script. You can also change the
way the IBVA reads the incoming brainwave data, allowing you to change the
type of brain reading, resolution, translation, etc. per scene! So if a character
in a movie needs to meditate before the film can progress, the viewers brain
is gonna have to take the ride too or suffer the consequences!
This stuff gets pretty interesting!
Death Scenes might be Dream Scenes, so your time may not be up!
Clay Movies
can also be molded to act as games as well as movies. It all depends on the
content!
The key here is to create your own digital movies and scripts and become a
pioneering director.
Dreams are real while they last.
Can we say more of life?
-- Havelock Ellis
Dream Plays open a fascinating new arena for computer interaction with the
mind. This art piece is designed to try to track REM sleep and trigger a Dream
Play when within a REM state and to pause when you are not. When the REM sleep
resumes,
so will the play, depending on how you script it.
The uses for the dream play code engine may be greater than you would expect.
The possibility of interacting with the linear or non-linear content of your
own creation to feed or assist your subconscious becomes as interesting as
your imagination, or the imagination of other Dream Players.
Groovy : )
The Gym
Get those brainwaves going to achieve mental muscles!
Alert!
"No pain, no gain!" is no longer true!
That's right, now you can get loads of gain without the pain!
The Gym feature of Step 1 gives your brain lobes a real workout!
The concept is to use a digital movie as a simple push-pull mechanism. When you first open a movie in The Gym it will display a still frame. This still frame is the frame you want to end up viewing as you control the movie with your brainwave level.
One of our sample movies shows our weight lifter Vox trying to bring a hand weight up to his chin. If you use the default settings Vox will be able to lift the weight higher as you relax more.
You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage levels and ranges you wish to work with.
Lose your mental strength and Vox laughs at your puny mind!
With BrainWeights (a series of workout related on-screen characters, male and female, included with Step 1) you can work the person on screen to pump that brain matter!
Of course there are many more usable movies included with the IBVA for this feature!
You are strongly encouraged to create your own movies!
Rate Control Factory
Make the world spin in the opposite direction with only your thoughts!
Did the earth move for you too?
When you use a movie within RCF, depending upon the control type you choose (Backwards-Forwards, Slow-Fast, Backwards Slow-Fast, or Backwards-Forwards Slow) you can control the direction (forwards or reverse) and playback rate (slower or faster) of that movie using your brainwave activity.
Fall thru this tunnel or pull yourself out via your self control!
You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage levels and ranges you wish to work with.
Of course there are many more usable movies included with the IBVA for this feature!
You are strongly encouraged to create your own movies!VR Brain Machine
This is actually a virtual machine that you can read brainwave information from!
See it the way you see it!
The VR Brain Machine feature is designed to present brainwave data in "untraditional" ways. Traditional ways of viewing brainwave information are horizontal bar charts, cascade formations and wave charts.
You can create your own alternative, interesting methods to view this data. We present our own sample machine crafted of fine virtual stone and wood in which certain stone cylinders rotate depending upon brain states and their amplitude (strength).
The higher the amplitude of the brainwave the more the large cylinder on the left turns. Each cylinder to the right represents a particular frequency range (From left to right: Eye Movement, Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta low and Beta high).
Use your imagination and create your own machines that
display brain data the way you want to see it.
Good Gravy it's Groovy!
Plant Personalities
We are not alone!
This feature uses the IBVA to monitor the electrical activities coming from a plant (or, for your purposes, any bio-electrical creature) and apply a "personality" to it.
Attaching the IBVA to a plant will give you its readings as the plant reacts to certain events. As you approach the plant you will notice a more "agitated" reading. As you move farther away the plant will "calm down". No we're not kidding about this.
Our sample movies give the plant a vocal "personality". The more agitated the plant becomes as you approach it, through the sound port of your computer, it will angrily tell you to "Back off!". Or, to give the plant a friendlier personality, when you are away, the plant encourages you to come closer.
Create your own scripts and movies to create your own "personalities" for plants or other bio-electrical creatures. Make your environment come alive!
The Secret Life of Plants
by
Peter Tompkins and Christopher BirdDo what we say and go pick up this book.
You can thank us by picking up an IBVA and hooking to some plants.
There was also a great Secret Life of Plants movie distributed thru Paramount in the 70's that had Stevie Wonder in it who also did the double album soundtrack. The movie is pretty hard to find so if anyone knows anyone selling or distributing new (legit) copies of it on tape or (please, please, please) laserdisc or DVD, let us know. Our tape is grainy as can be.If you want to see a plant and bird talk to each other via IBVA then look here.
Make this boulder rise above the ground!
May the force be with you!
This section is designed to use your brainwaves to meet and pass specific goals.
You
must learn how to control your brain states so that you can control certain
events within a digital movie
(which, in effect can become a game).
Our training example shows a boulder on a grassy field. The goal is to float
the boulder for 60 seconds by relaxing; maintain that level as another boulder
slides beneath it, and finally, let the boulder come down to rest upon the
boulder on the ground.
Align the second boulder directly underneath the first one
Complete the training by setting one boulder atop the other!
If you cannot maintain these certain levels, the boulder floats back down.
When you learn to maintain the specific brain states within 60 second periods,
the training is complete and an alert will appear telling you that your training
is complete.
You are strongly encouraged to create your own movies!
Pit brain against brain via these on-screen arm wrestling characters!
Take off the kid gloves and let the brain matter fly!
A great mental test of skill against another. The concept, to humiliate an
opponent with your superior brain powers. Settle bar fights, world conflicts
and lovers disputes the correct way. No blood, no lost lives, only the intense
humiliation and shame of losing to someone you thought was a sap. Show your
mate who wears the BrainPants in the house!
Get a little luv'n going when you try KissFighting, a meeting of the minds!
Each person puts on an IBVA and has their brain activity represented as one
of the on-screen characters. You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage
levels and ranges you wish to work with for each fighter. This way no matter
how good your brain is, you can always have a fair fight with someone new to
BrainFighting.
Don't forget you can also make your own movies to BrainFight with! You vs.
your friend, your pet against your child, any movie your imagination can think
up! You are strongly encouraged to create your own movies!
This Expansion Pak requires a 2ch (two channel) IBVA System for Brain vs Brain
fighting or a 1ch for same brain Frequency vs Frequency fighting and it's pretty
darn fun.
Optional uses for this Pak:
IBVA PPP
IBVA Present-Post-Past Interaction and Retrieval
What the heck is this? Well it's the feature of being able to use recorded
brainwave data (from a camcorder, walkman, DAT, DVD, etc.) to interact or analyze
in the future or present.
As an example, let's say we get a famous Zen master to do their best meditative
state on video with an IBVA recorded audio track. Now lets say that we use
this BrainFighter function with a live contender pitted against the recorded
master. You can test your mind in a real IBVA BrainFight with a master from
any country recorded at any timeline from today on. All current and future
generations can analyze and BrainFight the masters from different cultures
and time periods.
Yum!
Shoot brain messages across the world!
Just when you thought the IBVA couldn't get any groovier!
Welcome to BrainNet!
With this Expansion Pak you can use your live brain activity to send messages via local network or the worldwide Internet!
The IBVA BrainNet will connect to any Telnet server (no matter what computer or operating system is running that server) and send the messages or information you assign. From there the information can be stored, forwarded, used as a trigger, or even used to trigger more triggers anywhere on the Internet!!
This Pak has some nice options for automatically sending your current live brainstate as well as controlling the rate at which messages are sent so you can run many programs concurrently with this one.
Drain that stress by giving horrible electrical shocks to the on-screen characters!
Twisted? Yes!
Fun? Well....Yes!
The Concept:
To not torture and destroy the subject by keeping your brainwaves in line.
The Procedure:
Adjust the settings and select a subject.
You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage levels and ranges you wish
to work with.
There is no real goal to this one. Just keep the subject from getting shocked
for as long as wanted.
If the subject gets it a few times in a row, well....
Use your mind to ring the bell! Great for children!
A simple, fun, brain interface!
The Concept:
To ring the bell via your brain states.
The Procedure:
Adjust the settings and go.
You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage levels and ranges you wish
to work with.
Light up the twin towers with your mind!
Fun with a New York twist!
The Concept:
To light the towers via your brain states.
The Procedure:
Adjust the settings and go.
You can customize all the Frequency and Voltage levels and ranges you wish
to work with.
This was created around 1991.
With all due respect we feel this is a nice memory to how things once were.
Translate brainwaves to MIDI on Mac or Windows!
With this Expansion Pak you can use your live brain activity to send MIDI messages via your installed MIDI connections! (QuickTime, OMS, soundcard, etc.)
Before you could even purchase MIDI compatible equipment anywhere,
the IBVA System was compatible with the original MIDI specification.
Another
first from the IBVA!
We also do it best! That's right, we put brainwaves and MIDI together before most people had even heard of it. Many years ago we even prevented a US Patent attempt by a (we'll be nice, no names) company that wanted to stop us from selling brainwave to MIDI equipment.
We alerted the company and the Patent Office to the fact that we were doing public displays of brainwave MIDI control almost a decade before their company had even existed. Their patent never went through and brainwave to MIDI communication is safe and free today. That shows 'em for trying to put the hurt on IBVA!
With the IBVA System and Step 1 you are limited only by your imagination.
Get ready!
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