Playing a fembot at Hypnolust is a structured, guided experience. The ultimate guidance would be to provide audio, visual and tactile information, directly and solely to the subject, without obtrusive equipment. "Programming" should be received only by she who is being programmed; it is an internal, "personal" experience. The controller/hypnotist belongs inside her mind, and invisibly creates sensations on her body.
For now, Google Glass is expensive. It's also too large. If she can't roll around on the bed while wearing it, that's too obtrusive. That tech has only begun to develop, sexually.
A bluetooth earpiece is a fine way to communicate control information (just ask the Cybermen). If the tech and the meditative/hypnotic state are truly compatible, then sound can communicate a frequency, or commands, or sounds like a servo or computing noises (Bionic Woman). I think sounds are a later consideration, because there's such a wide space of possible sounds to employ.
Sensation is beyond, beneath language and more mysterious and personal/private/internal/uniquely meant for her. I propose that there are numerous small ways, some less familiar, which could be combined and orchestrated to entrain her to the pleasure of following, or rather falling into, the narrative sculpted to unfold around her. Take two Kinects to map the room and the performers moving in it. Add in how limbs and major joints connect, and maybe a few accelerometers to detect when she initiates a motion, then the rest of that motion can be anticipated.
Imagine an arm with a long-sleeved, lacy glove. Down the arm, inside, tiny vibration motors, with bluetooth and power. On the glove's surface, lights that stream down the arm. The lights will seem to trigger the vibrations - did the lights make the sensation? Doesn’t matter; no, but doesn’t merit thinking about - so give in to Pavlov, and accept the confusion of causality. The mind will tend to make the association, and the association will be rewarded with stimulation of other vibrations in pleasurable zones. As she follows the script or verbal commands, she plays into the pre-planned motions, and her experience of the motions is the feedback that tells her that she is successfully executing her program. She can be relaxed, not thinking, just doing and being and being done.
The key idea here is taken from magic - using multiple communication methods, misdirecting her as to how and where the sensations arise, cradling the subject as she moves through the scene so that her experience of her sensations is diffused, synesthetic, hard to nail down and not worth trying; just take the ride, stop thinking about exactly what equipment is built or sewn at various locations into her meager apparel.
I would incorporate pretty but non-functional “devices” into the outfit, for misdirection. I would assert that the outfit employs certain specific, amazing technologies (which are almost plausible but do not yet exist or are not available to consumers), and also trigger sensations and sounds or lights when those devices are supposedly being used. I would exaggerate the power of the real methods being used to influence her. I would incorporate popular myths. I would harness what the Placebo Effect purports to be (but actually isn't).
There are biological mechanisms to consider: not biochemical, but there are reflexes; there are the body areas which particularly enjoy a little vibration (at specific frequencies) or other stimulation; aural communication through bone transduction (skull or jaw); a sense of presence can be induced; veering to one side; and the like, et cetera and yadda-yadda.
from this month,
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/inde ... n-the-lab/
Because a fembot shoot is a positive set and setting, what prompted those two to be disturbed will instead be harnessed and enjoyed because of the power and mystery of the unfamiliar sensations. I have not worked out the language, but it should reflect that I’m manipulating sensations and creating synesthesias.When these various sensory streams get out of sync, even by a little bit, that can create various self-illusions, such as out-of-body experiences. Researchers in the lab can generate OOB sensations, or the sensation that we occupy a dummy or a virtual avatar.
The researchers in the current study therefore tried to induce a FoP in the lab by exploiting the same principles. They studied 12 healthy subjects with a robot-slave device. The subjects had a control in front of them that controlled a robot arm behind them. When they moved the control the robot arm behind them would touch their own back. When the control and robot arm were in sync, this produced the illusion that the subjects were massaging their own back.
The experimenters then delayed the robot arm by about 500 milliseconds. This setup disrupted the illusion of control over the robot arm and generated a FoP — the subjects felt one or more presences in the lab with them, or that they were being watched. Some also sensed that they were moving backwards, toward the source of the sensation. Two of the 12 subjects found the sensation disturbing enough that they asked for the experiment to immediately end.
The Wiimote and TENS healing devices are available for parts, or purchasing components may be simple and inexpensive. I imagine that some adequate amount of sensation could be created underneath the lights by a string of small generators of electric or magnetic fields (especially near the frequency of purring).
I haven’t investigated brain wave frequencies. Rhythms of very, very small shocks probably have their place. I could imagine the subject using a basic, over-the-counter headset and her brain frequencies to give her “control” over some indicator, some nominal and easy goal - but how her task actually works out entirely depends on the goal of the choreography. Like a rigged poker machine, a set of rules seems to be in play, but her expectations of control are false.
With a simple video edit, she can spin around three times then regain her balance - and then the video is back, so we never saw the spinning, but the disorientation enables her misdirection. That would be a sort of reboot for her.
Perhaps two pieces of clothing brought adjacent, a stocking to a high-heeled shoe, and one induces a field or magnetically repels the other. Something about feet and grounding, women can be distracted by their feet.
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I have these vague outlines so far, but Fembot Prop #2 has an objective. I told an old friend about Prop #1 (though not about fembots yet), and he was very enthusiastic to collaborate. He's also a genius in several ways, technology being one of them.
Of course, the advice and collaboration of Fembot Central members matters the most.
- Dale Coba