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I went to dance classes to develop my breakdancing abilities... When it comes to the tech side, my dream job had always been to create gadgets of the future
Can you begin with a little bit about yourself and how you became interested in dance and technology? I initially got interested when I was back in middle school. One day, I bought a Michael Jackson cassette tape, and the first time I listened to that it had a huge impact because it was the first time I had encountered dance music. As a result, I started going to dance classes to develop my breakdancing abilities. When it comes to the technology side, my dream job had always been to create gadgets of the future. I therefore chose to major in electrical engineering at university, and that’s when I encountered and began to experiment with wearable computing. That’s how my hobby for dance combined with my dream job in technology, and ultimately became the core focus of my studies. Wearable computing essentially means a computer you can wear on your body – for example, the Apple Vision Pro counts as a type of wearable computing, within the head mount display category. One of my first experiments was using acceleration sensors, like a gyro sensor in your phone. It tells you about direction, how fast you’re moving, etc. I would put these on different parts of the body and, by doing so, alongside choreography, you can turn these metrics caught by the sensors into lighting and designs that match the sound. What started as a hobby and experimentation turned into MPLUSPLUS. Could you take us through the launch of your company? During university, I was learning dance and studying LED technology at the same time. That’s when I started trying out wearing LEDs on my body and essentially incorporating light into dance choreography – I called this role
MPLUSPLUS has recently been experimenting with applying LEDs onto drone technology
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