The line in the article about VR-brain interfaces is I believe a reference to http://www.neurable.com/
This tech is exciting. Imagine a wizard game where you literally meditate to recover mana.
This tech is exciting. Imagine a wizard game where you literally meditate to recover mana.
I think EEG (external, that is) device will be really important in controlling things that have very low entropy. For example, clicking start and choosing an item from the list is something that could be achieved with these. But, for example, writing a response to someone would be infeasible.
At some point, if VR goes mainstream, then people will be accustomed to having to wear something dopey on their heads! This would be a perfect "in" for EEG technology and the kinds of simple examples I mentioned. Maybe a future where we "think" to choose apps to use isn't too far off.
I believe "thinking" to call people will be very trivial with EEG devices if your brain does a sufficiently different thing depending on who you think about -- which I have no reason to doubt.
Turns out there's a reason medical EEG's are done in a faraday cage room, because mostly what the NIA picked up was the electrical noise generated from the 8 AC-DC transformer plugpacks charging my laptop, phone etc.