Old Olive: Tan Le - Headset that reads your brainwaves, Who's working on Headsets & Virtual Worlds (e.g. SL), Entheogens or Operatic Experiences?

A friend from France writes:


This is real, this is live, this is commercially viable. Your new mouse reads your mind.


Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves | Video on TED.com


(http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8T6S)


Scott:

Have you seen http://brainfingers.com ? There are a few of these devices around :) (Andrew Junker's Brainfingers specifically engaged letters for word formation).


But Tan Le's 'A headset that reads your brainwaves' is one of the most sophisticated I've seen ... Merci



BH:

Hers has two aspects that make a big difference: it easily can be set up to have as many controls as what most people use with their mouse (two dimensions, one alternative state), and it has a similar set-up (no abrasion, gel; only one atte...mpt for the software to learn—not more than what you'd do to test a known device). Adoption and use can follow affordances left by the trackpad, and surf on marginal improvement (take less space than a mouse, add one control dimension) while spreading through the most spectacular it-thing factor I've seen in a long time.


Scott:

Who's working on such headsets and virtual worlds (as in SL) or entheogen or operatic experiences, for example, that you know of?



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There are so many implications for culture, as well as questions for sociocultural anthropology with devices like these.


Let's explore this here:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology














(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-olivetan-le-headset-that-reads-your.html - July 24, 2010)