Following on from my previous post on BCI<\/a>, I’d like to share a Lunch & Learn session I presented at Deepend<\/a> on the topic with my partner Gen.<\/p>\n

Gen and her colleagues at Macquarie University have been investigating the Emotiv EPOC to validate it for use in scientific experiments, replacing more traditional EEG headsets. To cut a very long story short, they’ve found it does surprisingly well<\/a>. This is something that Emotiv are obviously very pleased<\/a> to hear.<\/p>\n

One of the key difficulties was understanding the latency of the signals, as the researchers need to generate meta-data about “presentations” of visual or auditory stimulus which have to be perfectly aligned with the brain-activity recordings (for ERPs). They were initially worried about the Emotiv’s use of WIFI rather than cables, but it turned out within acceptable tolerances.<\/p>\n

So when they had finished with one of the headsets I managed to borrow it for a few days, and finally wire up the Lunapian Lander game I wrote in 2009 to my brain!<\/p>\n

I took the whole setup into Deepend after only finishing it the night before, and was very nervous as to whether I could actually land a spaceship with my mind in front of 30 people…<\/p>\n

Did I manage it? Find out for yourself on the video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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