If anyone has every told you that they see music they listen to, they have synesthesia. It’s a fascinating neurological phenomenon where people experience crossed responses to stimuli, and no one knows exactly how common this is. A rough estimate claims that one in every 5,000 to 100,000 people is a synesthete, but it could be far more common or rare. Nobody really knows.
Seeing sounds and music in colors are up there with the most common types of experiences that synesthetes have, and a new application for HoloLens named Synesthesia brings this experience to everyone. It’s currently going… more
Source: Have You Seen This?: Synesthesia Adds Trippy Sound Visualization to the HoloLens