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« on: 2007-03-26 18:07:11 » |
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Emotiv Demo & Uplifting Minds
[Hermit: This same topic is covered on her personal blog at: http://www.sahelidatta.com/mf/2007/03/visualizing_thoughts/. Pardon the lack of formatting, but I was wrestling an apparently non-disposable ad blocking out most of her work except via cut & paste.]
Source: B2Beta Blog
Author: Saheli Datta
Dated: 2007-03-19
Today I actually tried the Emotiv headset. I blogged about them a couple weeks ago, before the Game Developers' Conference: they have created a headset/software system that converts the brainwaves of specific thoughts to avatar movements (Expressiv), excitement (Emotiv), and the movement of blokcs (Cognitiv). I tried just the Cognitiv, block-moving suite. Emotiv has an office in San Francisco where they hand-assemble the current generation of prototypes--it warmed the cockles of my physicist's heart to see a lab filled with soldering irons and oscilloscopes right here in the City. I can imagine these headsets as future collectors' items, with a little label that says, "Made with love in San Francisco." Awww. Co-founders Nam Do and Tan Le and Research Engineer Marco Della Torre fussed over my head as they fit the the headset; I have a lot of hair and my head, like the rest of me, is on the petite side. At one point Marco helpfully noted that he did have a pair of clippers in his desk. . .but my hair was safe and and the headset finally settled onto my head properly. (They pointed out that this particular set had just gone through a lot of abuse at the Game Developers conference.) I managed to learn push and (barely) lift. We played the Harry Potter Goblet of Fire game again, and this time Marco walked Harry Potter through the maze while I struggled to thinking uplifting thoughts. Despite a bit of performance anxiety, I did manage to get the cauldron to lift a couple times. I know a few geeks in this city who would pay good money to get their hands on those headsets without any game development, just to mess around with them, but for now Emotiv is still pushing on with their industrial-scale business plan.
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