by cloudstalker » May 25th, 2023, 7:23 am
I was a major fan of the old Virtual Hypnotist program; unfortunately, the technologies it relied on were deprecated by Microsoft, so, although the source code is still available, updating it is not really doable, and only those of us with Windows XP emulators can still run it (and I can't get voice recognition to work properly because of speed issues).
One feature that I had just begun to use when Windows 8 came out (way back in 2012) was the programmability in the script editor. It was very simple, but good enough to do make the program interactive. It allowed variables in the scripts, and branching based on various factors, notably user response. So, for example, it could require a verbal response, and act according to that response (even something as simple as "Yes" or "No").
With more modern technology, much more could be done with this capability. Variations can be done based on heart rate and blood pressure, for example, using a fitness watch. And the current AI improvements on TTS can make for very effective hypnosis scripts. This would especially be useful on people who are having difficulty being hypnotized overcoming their inhibitions, by allowing the induction to be able to adjust to the subject's level of resistance.
Unfortunately, VH was abandoned before much could be done with this, and the makers of MMM do not really consider this sort of capability to be a priority (although it is on their list of future improvements).