Design studio Layer has created LightVision, a headset unveiled at Design Miami during Miami art week that uses an LED light matrix to turn nature videos into biomorphic patterns to help users meditate.
The LightVision headset aims to make meditation easier by combining traditional techniques with vibration, sound and light, which it says helps users relax and change their pattern of thoughts.
It was designed for US startup Resonate by design studio Layer, whose founder Benjamin Hubert described the headset as a way to make the meditation process more accessible.
The LightVision headset was designed to help users meditate
"It's certainly novel, as physical hardware like this has never been used in this space ? we've had digital apps for years, but moving that digital experience to hardware that removes the need to 'learn' how to meditate makes the process more accessible and far more effective," Hubert told Dezeen. Layer's meditation headset uses an LED light matrix ? a grid of small individual LEDs close together ? that turns nature videos, including videos of trees swaying in the breeze and films of swimming fish, into biomorphic patterns.
These can be seen through closed eyes and are used together with synchronised vibrations and a soundtrack of monaural and binaural beats and isochronic tones ? single tones at regular intervals ? to activate the brain's "frequency-following" response.
An LED light matrix shows biomorphic images
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