And then what we do is like the internal world. "The cool thing about an AR headset is that it has every external world sensor that you would want to know about anything about your local environment.
"We're just not going to be able to know until these headsets are out there, and people start building the bi-directional applications," Russomanno said to me via video chat months after our demo, referring to more advanced AR and mixed-reality devices to come. He sees the arrival of better standalone VR and AR headsets, including Apple's, as a pathway to new inputs and peripherals. Is OpenBCI's Galea, and efforts like it, going to open up new doorways to future wearable sensors that interface with what we see and hear, and what our hands interact with? Fitbit layered multiple new sensors on its Sense watch, which also included an EDA stress sensor. It reminds me of the path of smartwatch tech, where optical heart-rate sensors started to open up flows of data that resulted in new health features on watches over time. Using technologies to make computers teach humans better is this other cool revolution that we're going to go through." "We actually like neurofeedback, and really smart UI, and really smart design, which is optimizing the other direction of the loop. "It's not to say that AI is not useful, it's just not the end-all be-all, not the only holy grail solution that's going to change the world," Russomanno said. Russomanno sees what Beyerlain is doing with drone control, having a system extend his own brain and body functions by using EMG, as a sign of how neurofeedback will change how we interact with computers just as much as AI. You can see the rubbery-tipped EEG electrodes in the prototype's headband.
The design of the final version of Galea (left) versus the prototype I tried. It seemed to be working? Feedback is a key part of a lot of OpenBCI's sensors, and how eventually they can be used to train and improve how we control things with our own neural impulses. I started to try to see if I could focus in certain ways to bring out different colors. My brain waves apparently changed the colors I saw.
There have already been previous efforts to use sensors on VR headsets to study cognitive processes, including the HP Omnicept, which had a heart-rate sensor, or most eye-tracking-enabled headsets.Īnother demo for the EEG sensors, created a meditative "synesthesia room" where my different brain-wave states were turned into colors of ambient light. They can also provide feedback on how using VR and AR affects the brain or attention. OpenBCI's multiple types of sensors could provide a ton of data that could indicate future directions for research, or new interfaces. But Meta is looking at sensing movement on wrist, whereas OpenBCI'a Russomanno sees better opportunities when used on the head, where the sensors won't interfere with existing efforts in camera-based hand tracking.ĮMG technology is meant to sense electrical impulses so subtle that perhaps no muscles seem to move at all, but that level of relationship between sensors, algorithms and human input could take a while to finesse. This is the same game Meta has been using to test and demonstrate its neural input wristband tech, which I saw last fall at Meta's Reality Labs Research Redmond headquarters. I moved a cartoon character back and forth with little movements of my facial muscles, which were recognized by the EMG sensors in the Galea facepiece. My demos included one EMG-based control game called Cat Runner.
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