Perfect Pitch Belt

I am developing a haptic belt to give the user perfect pitch.

Above is an early prototype which used a haptic vest designed for VR applications. It’s motors were too powerful and the vest was heavy. The new design uses a repurposed running belt with added microcontroller and coin-cell haptic feedback motors.

The concept in brief:

• The belt has a microphone that listens out for notes
• If it detects a note it will vibrate in a specific location
  • e.g. C# is front left, B is front right
  • The motor has 12 motors spaced evenly - one for each note
• The wearer begins to associate the note with a location
• Over a training period, the wearer will gain “perfect pitch” - the ability to identify notes by ear
• Long term the user no longer needs to wear the belt, since their brain has re-wired to learn perfect pitch naturally
• ???
• Profit

Below is a video from the first prototype using the modified VR vest. Demoed at Augmented Humans Conference 2023.