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Elon Musk’s Brain-chip Startup Approved by FDA for Testing on Humans

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface (BMI) company, has announced that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct its first tests on humans. The company is developing minimally invasive brain chips which it hopes to use to restore vision and mobility for people with disabilities. Neuralink says it doesn’t have […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

30. Mai 2023

Neuralink “Show & Tell” Coming on November 30th, Hints at Thought-controlled Typing

Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface (BMI) company Neuralink has been fairly quiet since it last showed off a live trial of the company’s implant in a macaque early last year. Although originally scheduled for October 31st, Musk says a “show & tell” update is coming on November 30th. The event is said to take place on November […]

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28. November 2022

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 provide “a deeper understanding to augment the human mind.” Update (11:15 ET): Previously OpenBCI had tapped Valve […]

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31. Mai 2022

The creation of the metaverse: The market

New technologies and services are the market opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors wanting to strike gold within the metaverse. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Veljko Ristic, SDV Lab

21. Mai 2022

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 that’s currently building AR devices. “Snap Lab’s programs explore possibilities for the future of the […]

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23. März 2022

Gabe Newell: Valve is Making “big investments” in New Headsets and Games

In a talk at an Auckland, New Zealand area high school back in May, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell revealed they’re making “big investments in new headsets and games,” something he hopes will prepare the company for a future of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Newell has been living in New Zealand for the past few months, which […]

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1. Dezember 2021

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 only able to manipulate a desktop cursor, but also play a game of Pong (1972) at […]

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9. April 2021

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 and that developer kits incorporating eye-tracking and “design elements” of Valve Index are expected to first […]

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25. Januar 2021

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, arriving with a multiple sensors designed to monitor biometric data streams in real time. Galea […]

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25. November 2020