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Uploads

My Uploads project is getting there.

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Using a Kinect, a Mindwave, Python, and OpenFrameworks to create a DIY transhumanist realisation of Moravec-style personality uploads to the extent that affordable contemporary technology allows.

This is a low-resolution record of my mind (brain eeg via Mindwave) and body (a depth image/point cloud via Kinect) created using Python and played back using an OpenFrameworks application that uses the Twitter streaming API to match current emotional state data to the recorded states. It’s watching me watch Blade Runner…