Keywords
VR, Stylus, EEG, Flow, Affective Computing

Technologies
MX Ink, WebXR, Meta Quest 3, EEG, Three.js

Fingerspitzengefühl, Wu Wei, flow state; when intuition, effortlessness and immersion converge, you stop forcing thought; the goal is to do good work, not to spend less time. You exist in a reality beyond time - a glimpse of harmony, content mirrors form - tool in hand, task in mind. Our ancestors painted cave walls; in this project, we illuminate sketches in a cave perhaps more Platonic than Plato's: an immersive virtual reality (VR).

This project uses the Logitech MX Ink MR stylus, the Meta Quest VR headset and the WebXR framework alongside the BrainLink Pro EEG device to explore how optimal flow state can be achieved, classified and inferred for the purpose of affective computing. The goal is simple: harness the Logitech MX Ink stylus' precision in three-dimensional space to algorithmically predict the user's flow state.

Study participants were equipped with an EEG and introduced to a VR environment purpose-built to elicit and facilitate flow. The VR application sampled the stylus' positional data and various psychometrics were collated via an embedded VR survey interface as the user completed drawing tasks with the stylus.