"Hi, everyone! It's Serena," Serena whispered, quiet and calm.

Serena kneeled on a soft pillow she had placed behind the 3Dio, leaning over the table so that her head craned around. Her lips were close to the left silicone ear—the one she had whispered into moments earlier. She gave a quick glance up to the camera that was on and recording, pointed at her, looking up to the small LCD display she had mounted above it. The view the camera was recording appeared there, showing the framed shot that would appear in her final video; as prescribed, the 3Dio was perfectly centered in the shot, and though a corner of Serena's face was cut out of the video, enough of her was visible for it to be perfectly okay.

A pair of simple white earbuds were nestled snugly in Serena's ear. A long cable ran down the front of her, just in front of her lavender hoodie, snaking under the table and meeting with her laptop. Everything that came through the 3Dio appeared in her own headphones—every little thing she did was picked up by the microphones that were nestled in the silicone ears and amplified to incredible detail, down to the little breaths she had tried to stifle and make quiet. It made Serena a bit uncomfortable at first as what she listened to sounded like the room around her when she hadn't been wearing earbuds, and then the sensations she heard and felt weren't from her own ears. It sounded as though she was breathing right in her own ear.

As a test, Serena closed her eyes and stayed quiet. She then touched the 3Dio's ears, gently tracing her fingernail around the outer edge of the ear. To the simple touch, it felt like real ears—even more amazing, she heard it right in her own ear as though she was touching her own ear, even to the point where it felt like she was touching her own ears.

Though Serena had become engrossed in just toying with the 3Dio for a brief moment, she then snapped back to reality. In front of her, the red 'record' light was on, shining on the front of the camera and making her realize she was still making the video.

"My name is Serena, and I do ASMR videos—or, at least, I'm trying to that today," she whispered, hearing it isolated in the left ear she had kept her lips close to. She backed away, leaning her head back and leaning towards the other ear. She heard her little breaths in her right ear. "And, well, this is just a simple video, really..."

A large digital stopwatch took up the screen of her laptop, facing her in the chair. She had recorded for about three minutes. She needed to make about a twenty minute video.