Demonstrated
Low-bandwidth brain-to-brain signals
Researchers have transmitted simple intentional information between people using EEG and non-invasive stimulation. This is not free-form telepathy or dream transfer.
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Futuregames · speculative BCI · 2026
Aether 2.0
Designing shared imagination
A future product concept made tangible through research, a multiplayer browser prototype and a launch film that slowly turns against its own promise.
Watch the final film- Format
- Speculative UX case
- Time
- 10 days · August 2026
- Team
- 4 people
- Final film
- 8:32
The reveal
Who owns the dream?
Aether begins as a seductive product launch. The case then examines what happens when imagination becomes data, advertising becomes memory and one person can gain more control over a shared inner world.
The proposed experience
From a private thought to a place for two
The product was designed as a deliberate sequence rather than effortless telepathy. Elias chooses to enter a shared space, invites Maya and selects what kind of experience the system may construct.
- 01
Sleep
Enter Aether intentionally instead of broadcasting mental activity by default.
- 02
Invite Maya
A known person must be selected and accept before anything is shared.
- 03
Select a scenario
Choose a bounded context such as a beach rather than opening the whole mind.
- 04
Co-create
AI turns selected signals into a shared, visibly reconstructed environment.
Making the idea testable
Prototype the interaction, not the impossible hardware
I built a first-person browser simulation to communicate the social mechanic in seconds. Players enter a neutral room and select thought suggestions that materialise as procedural objects. Compatible choices merge into a violet shared event.
- Ten procedural thought archetypes
- Shared outcomes created by compatible choices
- Up to five people in an ephemeral room
- Reactive Elias demonstrates the concept in solo mode
- BroadcastChannel fallback and optional Supabase Realtime
A future built from three different levels of evidence
We separated what research has demonstrated from infrastructure still in development and the parts that remain design fiction. That boundary kept an intentionally extreme concept intellectually honest.
Emerging
BCI inside immersive environments
Clinical BCI work and VR research suggest that neural input can be trained and interpreted inside more natural spatial contexts.
Design fiction
A stable shared dreamscape
High-bandwidth experience sharing, reliable memory reconstruction and safe neural feedback would require multiple major breakthroughs. Aether uses that uncertainty as design material.
The narrative device
Sell the future. Then investigate the cost.
Our presentation borrowed the confidence of a technology keynote before freezing, glitching and returning years later through an investigative interview. The contrast made both the appeal and the danger easier to understand.
The promise
A new place to think together
A warm product launch presents Aether as intimate communication: shared travel, creativity and presence without physical distance.
The investigation
01
Neural profiling
Repeated symbols can be interpreted as emotion, preference or vulnerability, even when the inference is wrong.
02
The dream economy
When a world forms around thought, advertising no longer interrupts the experience. It can become the experience.
03
Unequal control
A shared world is only shared if every participant can remove, reject and immediately leave what is created.
Individual contribution
I connected the concept, prototype and final story
My contribution was not one isolated scene. I proposed the BCI direction, helped turn Shared Dreamscape into the chosen concept, built the browser prototype and became the person who assembled most of the final presentation film.
Concept initiator · interaction prototyper · lead video editor · collaborative production facilitator
Direction
Proposed BCI as the group's future-technology field.
Concept
Researched Shared Dreamscape and produced the first Maya, Elias and interface studies.
Prototype
Built the browser simulation, added multiplayer and prepared it for Vercel.
Final film
Operated the live Resolve timeline, assembled the story and polished transitions, music and sound.
Building the film together, live
Instead of assigning four disconnected sections, we reviewed storyboards, footage and voiceover together while I screen-shared DaVinci Resolve and translated decisions directly into the timeline.
The process created a more coherent film and stronger shared ownership. It was also slower at times because one person controlled the timeline while the others reviewed.
The outcome
A product launch with an argument inside it
The final 8:32 film was created for a roughly ten-minute presentation format. It moves from spectacle to scrutiny and ends by asking what rules a shared inner world would need before it deserved trust.
How the material was made
Human-led
Research framing, concept selection, interaction model, browser prototype, narrative structure, editing, transitions and sound direction.Team-shared
Story decisions, voiceover direction, critique, clip selection and the final review of the presentation.AI-assisted
Selected characters, environments, video shots, synthetic voices and sound effects, all directed and edited into the team's authored narrative.Aether principles
The experience only works while the users remain in control
Shared imagination could become an unusually intimate form of communication. The design therefore ends with four non-negotiable principles rather than another feature list.
- Consent
- The user chooses what is sensed and shared.
- Control
- The user can change or remove anything.
- Privacy
- Thoughts are not automatically stored or sold.
- Exit
- Leaving is always immediate.
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