Since Muse headset can deliver brainwave data in the form of OSC, I wanted to try out how to input OSC data to TouchDesigner. To try it out, I searched for how-to's video and article and found this article posted by the TouchDesigner group themselves.
In this post, they mentioned that there are several ways to insert the OSC data stream to TouchDesigner by an iOS application; TouchOSC and ZIGSIM. When I searched for both applications, the TouchOSC app is a paid app, while ZIGSIM is free. So I decided to try ZIGSIM. Unfortunately, the article did not explain in detail on how to use the ZIGSIM app on TouchDesigner.
So from there, I searched for any ZIGSIM - TouchDesigner related posts and found this. This post from ZIGSIM explains that we can send motion data from our device to PC.
There are basically two 'tutorials' that the article showed.
The first one is using another app called ZIG Indicator which can help visualize sensor values. However, ZIG Indicator can only run with the JSON Message Format and cannot be changed into OSC.
The second tutorial is showing users how to connect the ZIGSIM app from our smartphone to the TouchDesigner software. After following the steps, my TouchDesigner can pick up the phone the data and show movement by the displayed graphs. However, the software seems to not connect to the readily available trail, instead, create a new trail, and therefore, the quaternion data is not read properly.
This is how it is supposed to look when succeeding in sending the OSC data to TouchDesigner by ZIGSIM.
This is my result.
If you can look closely at the two boxes on top (the ones that show the moving graph), those lines are newly created when connecting my ZIGSIM app to my computer, instead of taking place of the already existing and labeled graph (the first three lines from the top). This is the main reason why the rectangular 3D cube (the moving shoebox) is not moving on my experiment, as the node connected to it is reading from another data source. Thus far, I have not figured out how to change and connect it to the right source.
In this post, they mentioned that there are several ways to insert the OSC data stream to TouchDesigner by an iOS application; TouchOSC and ZIGSIM. When I searched for both applications, the TouchOSC app is a paid app, while ZIGSIM is free. So I decided to try ZIGSIM. Unfortunately, the article did not explain in detail on how to use the ZIGSIM app on TouchDesigner.
So from there, I searched for any ZIGSIM - TouchDesigner related posts and found this. This post from ZIGSIM explains that we can send motion data from our device to PC.
There are basically two 'tutorials' that the article showed.
The first one is using another app called ZIG Indicator which can help visualize sensor values. However, ZIG Indicator can only run with the JSON Message Format and cannot be changed into OSC.
The second tutorial is showing users how to connect the ZIGSIM app from our smartphone to the TouchDesigner software. After following the steps, my TouchDesigner can pick up the phone the data and show movement by the displayed graphs. However, the software seems to not connect to the readily available trail, instead, create a new trail, and therefore, the quaternion data is not read properly.
If you can look closely at the two boxes on top (the ones that show the moving graph), those lines are newly created when connecting my ZIGSIM app to my computer, instead of taking place of the already existing and labeled graph (the first three lines from the top). This is the main reason why the rectangular 3D cube (the moving shoebox) is not moving on my experiment, as the node connected to it is reading from another data source. Thus far, I have not figured out how to change and connect it to the right source.
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