Mind Pilot | 2018

Imagining a future of brain-controlled aerial transportation.

Mind Pilot by Loop.ph was commissioned by the Design Museum for London Design Festival 2018. I worked on this project as intern there in 2018.

Mind Pilot explores an accessible future of flight, drawing together speculation about brain-controlled interfaces, autonomous flying vehicles, transcendental meditation and the dream of flight. The piece featured a 7m balloon manipulated by biometric sensors attached to museum visitors who underwent a VR experience.

My role in the project was prototyping and filming the digital content of the VR experience alongside Wolf in Motion studio, in addition to developing the physical correlate of the VR station. I was also involved in prototyping rigs for controlling the balloon.

For more information see Mind Pilot at Loop.ph.

www.Loop.pH and Wolf in Motion, September 2018 at the Design Museum (London) Immersive installation that allows you to pilot a helium filled airship through the power of your mind. Mind Pilot encourages the idea of an inclusive future where people with varying physical abilities can use technology such as mind power to experience and operate flight. The lightweight, airship will be operated and able to fly in multiple directions within a tethered framework. The pilot wears a virtual reality headset that stimulates the sense of being in flight, and a device that measures brain waves and sends signals that navigate the balloon through the space.