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Wearables · 2025

Somatic Bloom

Headpieces that project your emotions onto someone else

Archive · 2025. Project notes reflect the work at the time of documentation.

Year
2025
Track
Wearables
Built by
Olivia Zheng
Status
Shipped / shown
Somatic Bloom — Headpieces that project your emotions onto someone else
Olivia Zheng wearing a Somatic Bloom headpiece on stage.

Cover: a frame from the talk recording, Human Augmentation Summit 2025, cropped and color-corrected.

Overview

A pair of kinetic, chromatic headpieces that morph in response to biosignals. EMG muscle sensors read one wearer's emotions and project them onto the headpiece worn by the person they're talking to — and when both people express the same positive emotion, a special effect triggers.

Field notes

The project's title slide
The project's title slide. Frame from the talk recording, Human Augmentation Summit 2025.
A demo video shown in the talk: Olivia Zheng's facial expression controls the other wearer's headpiece
A demo video shown in the talk: Olivia Zheng's facial expression controls the other wearer's headpiece. Frame from the talk recording, Human Augmentation Summit 2025.