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CREATIVITY WALKS

An AR thinking companion

RoleProduct · Design · Full-stack
Year2025
HardwareEven Realities G1
BuiltNext.js · Express · AugmentOS SDK · GPT-3.5

A walking practice for Even Realities G1 glasses: tell it what you are working on, and an LLM walks you through de Bono’s six thinking hats, one prompt at a time, with quiet in between.

Overview

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Walking helps people think, but it is easy to walk in circles. Creativity Walks gives the walk a structure. You describe a problem on your phone, and the glasses take you through Edward de Bono’s six thinking hats, from facts to feelings to new ideas, a stretch of the walk for each. A short prompt appears, then the screen goes blank, so the next half minute is yours.

Phone + glasses

Try it

Six Hats walk

SETUP
Walk
A thought every
Six hats, 5 min each
  1. White
  2. Red
  3. Black
  4. Yellow
  5. Green
  6. Blue
Visit the website to set up your Six Thinking Hats walk
Six hats
The walk splits into six equal stretches, one per hat, in de Bono’s order: facts, feelings, caution, benefits, new ideas, process.
A thought, then quiet
Every interval the glasses show a prompt, and the next interval they show nothing, so there is time to think about it.
Look up
Looking up shows where you are: the time, the hat, and how long until the next one.

The setup and the walk redesigned as a trail map, driving a recreation of the lens. The prompts are written for this page; time runs ten times faster.

How it works

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The phone sends the problem, the length of the walk and how often to prompt. The glasses server asks GPT-3.5 for four prompts per hat, 15 words or fewer, and keeps the walk clock: six equal stretches, and every interval either a prompt card or a blank screen. Looking up shows the time, the current hat and the minutes until the next. Each screen goes through the AugmentOS cloud to the Mentra app and over Bluetooth to the glasses.

System

Architecture
CREATIVITY WALKS · SYSTEM202501 / THE WALKSix hats, one walkEQUAL STRETCHES · 5 MIN EACH ON A 30-MIN WALKWhite hatfactsRed hatfeelingsBlack hatcautionYellow hatbenefitsGreen hatnew ideasBlue hatprocessSTARTEND02 / SIGNAL PATHPhone, server, model, lensA · PHONEWeb appproblem, length,intervalB · SERVERGlasses appExpress + SDK,the walk clockC · MODELGPT-3.54 PROMPTS PER HAT,15 WORDS OR FEWERD · CLOUDAugmentOSrelays itE · G1GlassesMentra, BLEHEAD TILT, SPEECH: BACK03 / CADENCEA thought, then quietGreen HatWhat if the show ends twice?EVERY 30 SA PROMPTNOTHINGLOOK UP: TIME, HAT,MINUTES TO THE NEXTCREATIVITY WALKS202501 / THE WALKSix hats, one walkEQUAL STRETCHES, 5 MIN EACHWhite hatfactsRed hatfeelingsBlack hatcautionYellow hatbenefitsGreen hatnew ideasBlue hatprocessSTARTEND02 / SIGNAL PATHPhone, server, model, lensA · PHONEWeb appproblem, length, intervalB · SERVERGlasses appExpress + AugmentOS SDK, the walk clockC · MODELGPT-3.54 per hat, ≤15 wordsD · CLOUDAugmentOSrelays itE · G1Glassesvia the Mentra app, over BluetoothHEAD TILT AND SPEECH COME BACK03 / CADENCEA thought, then quietGreen HatWhat if the show ends twice?EVERY 30 SA PROMPTNOTHINGLOOK UP: TIME, HAT,MINUTES TO THE NEXT

Two practices

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Six Hats is one. The other, Inspiration Walks, swaps the hats for six people you name, and the model writes each stretch’s prompts from that person’s point of view. Both share the same clock, the same rhythm of prompt and quiet, and the same look-up card.

Design

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The 2025 web app was a dark, monospaced form in three tabs: setup, the generated prompts, and a progress screen with two bars. The redesign keeps every step and treats the walk as a route. Paper and contour lines instead of a terminal, the six hats as six stretches of one path, and a walker moving along it, so the phone shows where you are in the walk at a glance.