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Varjo’s Enthusiast Grade VR Headset is Getting a Brain-computer Interface (and it’s not cheap)

Varjo, maker of high-end XR headsets, and OpenBCI, a company creating open source brain-computer interface solutions, today announced a new partnership that's bringing OpenBCI's long-awaited neural interface 'Galea' to Varjo’s latest Aero VR headset, something the companies say will...

Snap Acquires Brain-Computer Interface Startup NextMind

Snap announced it's acquired neurotech startup NextMind, a Paris-based company known for creating a $400 pint-sized brain-computer interface (BCI). In a blog post, Snap says NextMind will help drive "long-term augmented reality research efforts within Snap Lab," the company's hardware team...

Neuralink Reveals Monkey Playing ‘Pong’ Using Only Its Brain

Neuralink, the brain-machine interface (BMI) company created by Elon Musk, released a video showing off a live trial of its brain implant in a monkey. Using the primate's own recorded brain data, Neuralink demonstrated that the monkey was not...

Valve, OpenBCI & Tobii to Launch VR Brain-computer Interface ‘Galea’ in Early 2022

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell previously revealed Valve was working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) with OpenBCI, the minds behind open source BCI software and hardware solutions. Now Tobii, the eye-tracking firm, announced it's also a partner on the project...

OpenBCI Announces Brain-Computer Interface Designed Specifically for VR/AR Headsets

OpenBCI, the neurotech company behind the eponymous open-source brain-computer interface (BCI), are making a new hardware and software platform specifically for immersive headsets. Called Galea, the company says its new hardware is designed to attach to both AR and VR headsets,...

NextMind Unveils $400 Brain-Computer Interface Developer Kit

NextMind, a Paris-based brain-computer interface (BCI) startup, debuted a $400 neural interface dev kit at CES this week, something the company intends to release to developers in the first half of 2020. NextMind's device is a non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG), which...

Facebook Acquires BCI Startup CTRL-Labs to Develop Neural Input Device

Facebook announced today plans to acquire CTRL-Labs, a brain-computer interface startup developing hardware and software for decoding electrical activity from the brain to be used for computer input. Facebook says that with the company's expertise, it plans to develop...

Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets

Valve's resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder took the stage at GDC 2019 today for his talk on the state of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and how they'll inform the future of game design. In his talk, Ambinder put forth...

Valve Psychologist to Explore Brain-Computer Interface Research at GDC

At GDC 2019 later this month, Valve's Principal Experimental Psychologist, Mike Ambinder will present the latest research pertaining to brain-computer interfaces—using signals from the brain as computer input. Ambinder says that BCI is still "speculative technology," but could play...
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