From The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls. Your task is to break out of the room, but you cannot use your hands. There is no joystick or game pad. You must use your thoughts.Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/technology/thought-control-virtual-reality.htmlYou turn toward a ball on the floor, and your brain sends a command to pick it up. With another thought, you send the ball crashing into a mirror, breaking the glass and revealing a few numbers scribbled on a wall. You mentally type those numbers into a large keypad by the door. And you are out.
Designed by Neurable, a small start-up founded by Ramses Alcaide, an electrical engineer and neuroscientist, the game offers what you might call a computer mouse for the mind, a way of selecting items in a virtual world with your thoughts.
Incorporating a headset with virtual reality goggles and sensors that can read your brain waves, this prototype is a few years from the market. And it is limited in what it can do. You cannot select an object with your mind unless you first look in its general direction, narrowing the number of items you may be considering.
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you beat me to it.
I read about this earlier and have been considering making a post about it myself.
I like the idea...I'd like it even better if it were more sophisticated.
neural lace comes to mind.
which brings to mind brain hacks
I don't think it's possible to hack an outbound signal..only an inbound.
If the neural lace were used ONLY as a very sophisticated mouse or keyboard (or like that) ...and Augmented Reality were used for input(replace monitors and audio)..that would seem safe.
what do you think?
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