The concept of love is abstract, indescribable in words. Each person’s experience of love is their own. Your unique experience cannot truly be felt and understood by another, and you cannot truly feel what love is like for another. This creates disagreements, misunderstandings, and hurt feelings. Intentions are interpreted and described but never fully known.
But what if you could share your experience of love directly from your brain, not through words. Project AMO (“love” in Esperanto) is a brain-computer interface platform that creates shared emotional experiences.
The platform monitors brain data, looking for cues of strong emotions indicative of love. Neural oscillations extracted from the data, called brain waves, are translated into a multi-sensory experience for your partner. Musical tones, played through headphones integrated into the brain-sensing headset, are controlled by your partner’s brainwaves. Excited brainwaves translate to auto-generate music with a faster beat while resting brain waves create calm, more subdued, tones. Each partner also wears a necklace with two parts. The first is a module that sits on the back of the neck that houses signal processing hardware and a heating pad. The heat pad gives provides a comforting, warm feeling when your partner is thinking about you. The second part of the necklace is a pendant that hangs above your heart. The pendant consists of a heart rate sensor and a haptic engine. The sensors send heart rate information to the other partner’s haptic engine which pulses, giving the sensation of a beating heart, in alignment with their heartbeats.