Morphai

Dream’s continuous landscape of consciousness in science, technology and culture opens up to the gamification of sleep and potential of avatars. Eponymous of the human shapes dream god Morpheus sent to dreamers in Greek mythology, “Morphai” is a trans-consciousness multi-realities game where the animated character’s body movement is controlled by the signals from the sleeping human subject’s motor cortex captured by BCI devices. During the MITACS residency, Yiou will run a workshop for up to 40 participants on the project Morphai as a part of Sociability of Sleep. Based in both the Moving Image Research Lab and the Sleep Lab at McGill, project Morphai will explore the breadth of sociability across participants of various states of consciousness, where a waking player and a dreaming player share the same VR space and engage in prosocial behavior and be in each other’s company, through a player-controlled character’s interaction in game space with a dream-consciousness-controlled morphai.

Faculty Supervisor:

Alanna Thain

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Partner:

Harvard University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

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