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Why do we design breathing controlled apps and games?

With the latest advancement of computers and handheld devices, humans' main way of interaction with the outside world has been reduced to actions of tapping, swiping, typing, and clicking on keyboards, mice, and touch-sensitive screens. Consequently, there is a rise in repetitive strain injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, neck pain, hand numbness, and similar musculoskeletal disorders. We would like to change the paradigm of human-computer interaction to become based on breathing to improve health and enrich the user experience in information processing and gaming and entertainment.

Open Source?

Yes, we have embraced open source methodology in all our games and apps. It allows us to keep the development cycle transparent, which reduces bugs and improves performance. Additionally, it allows us to collaborate with numerous universities and other R&D organizations. Breathing games and apps are being developed under the MIT license. Learn more here.

Github?

Pursed Lip Breathing development is encouraged to be published on our newly created GitHub account (click). If developer publishes code elsewhere, we want to be at least informed of such publishing.

Any microphone is supported?

Any microphone, or microphone headset, can be used for pursed lip breathing interaction. Pursed-lip breathing detection is universal and should work on most possible acoustic signals.

Breathing in HTML5 Javascript?

Pursed Lip Breathing Javascript SDK is a set of libraries designed for exhalation detection that offers a nice and elegant way to replace the functionalities of a keyboard, mouse, and other interface devices with the use of exhalation. It allows developers to add breathing interaction to games and applications. Pursed Lip Breathing SDK contains different libraries for HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, and Unity; download it here: click to download (currently working just in Firefox). To get a better view inside the variables and DSP logic, please see the monitoring app (click) - works best on Firefox, may not work without "https" access.

What about native languages?

Sure, native languages may be the best choice when building applications upon various APIs, such as the YouTube Java API, various Google APIs, etc.

Got any examples of what kind of Pursed Lip Breathing apps to build?

There were some ideas in the community, some of these are: 1) Breathing controlled Facebook scrolling (or twitter or any other app that outputs long feed) on Android (similar to Breathing Scrolling - click, but as a "native" Android app), 2) Breathing controlled youtube video switcher on Android (just blow into device to move to next related video, similar to breathing.tv (documentation click, demo click - works best on Firefox, may not work without "https" access). Other breathing games (mainly developed in Flash/actionscript or Unity/C#) can be downloaded from Google Play (click) or iTunes (click).

I am a game developer and have a game proposal. Who can I pitch it to at Breathing Labs?

You can email your idea (a text, video, or mockup) to [email protected], and we will get back to you as soon as possible. You can also share your ideas with us publicly through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or any other social media. Generally, we don't sign NDA agreements when receiving "ideas" simply because we probably already work on similar ideas ourselves, but we will honor any individual contribution. For new ideas that lead to successful implementation, a financial award is offered to the author. If the author wishes to publish ideas themselves, we can work out any shared revenue or shared interest business relations; please get in touch ([email protected]) to schedule a video call (Skype or similar) to elaborate on the subject.

What is Breathing Software Developer Kit?

Pursed Lip Breathing Software Developer Kit (PLBSDK) is a set of libraries designed for exhalation detection that offers a nice and elegant way to replace the functionalities of a keyboard, mouse, and other interface device (IDF) with the use of exhalation. It allows developers to add breathing interaction to games and applications. Breathing SDK contains different libraries for HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, and Unity; download it here:: click to download.

How can we stay in touch?

Please subscribe to our developers email list here. You can connect with us on GitHub here. Additionally you can join our Facebook group for developers here, or we can connect via Twitter here.

What if I have more questions?

Say hi at [email protected]