Emotiv Dev kit ordered!
I recently ordered a dev kit from Emotiv and just found out that it will be here this Friday!
So what is this Emotiv stuff?
Emotiv is the company behind the EPOC neuroheadset, a wireless headset that reads neuro-signals basically. I won’t get into what a neuron is but if you want to read more about that sort of stuff check out the wikipedia article. It can read two types of major neuroscience branches (as they are called on the wiki) Cognitive and Affective. To make this easy we could say that the cognitive part is your conscious thoughts and intent while the affective part is your emotions. It can also read your face expression and has a gyro.
So what can you do with it?
A lot! Imagine using this headset in games, where you use your thoughts as input. Some people has connected it to their homes to switch on and off lights by just thinking about it. Another guy built it to control his wheelchair by using facial expressions. I can’t wait to get started, I noticed this project 2 years ago but I don’t think they shipped internationally by that time.
it currently only supports Windows but both OSX and Linux support (yay!) is in beta stage. So right now the dev kit contains a few dll files that you can access with C\C++, C#, Java (with jni), mathlab (I think) and other languages where you can communicate with win dlls. I’ve that there is a Unity plugin for this as well. The dev kit also contains a few applications such as a control panel for the EPOC headset.
Is this the future for gaming and human to device interaction? I don’t know, but I will blog about my experience of it when it gets here. Currently my only concern is that it has some latency, making action based games hard to create. Check out the videos below to see more of this awesome product!
Read more about Emotiv and EPOC here: http://emotiv.com/
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