BCI - Brain Computer Interface

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So one of my hobbys is gaming obviously, i find most games these days to be lacking a lot i dont know if its because its all just rehashed crap or if its me getting older, i no longer have that passion that fueled me when i was racing my friends to diamond/grand master every season on some games, that was until i started looking heavily into advancements in both the medical field and our tech field and honestly if you dont get hard off of this, hope may be lost.

 

so lets explain what BCI is first, i dont have all the technical knowledge behind how it works but essentially in one of the tests i read about they had a parapalegic man walk a few feet without help with the use of BCI technology, basically they put the cap on his head, attached the electrodes to his legs and after a lot of trials as well as preparation so he could walk again like building up leg muscles they managed to bypass the damaged nerves entirely and get him to walk, in another study they had a human move a rats tail.

 

now lets get to the product at hand the supposed AR glasses, one of many sources - https://www.virtualperceptions.com/oculus-facebook-ar-glasses-bci/

 

thats right folks, BCI tech on AR glasses which could potentially fix all the issues of people walking around and falling into manholes and all sorts of other stuff that happened with pokemon go, now im sure people might still fall in but it wont be because of the AR glasses (fingers crossed) and thats not all the good news either, back in 2016 samsung jumped on the wagon with a patent for AR contact lenses.

 

the bad news and maybe even good news depending on how you look at it is Apple has patents and such but they also admitted they cant make them with the right price tag behind them due to how much it costs to make, but we all know apple they like to give us these shiny things and say they cost 1100 dollars and 4 years later you can buy it for about 200$.

 

But anyways to the point of this post and my mindless rambling, if they manage to add BCI technology to AR glasses successfully, not only will we be closer to Augmented Realitys true potential but it could even pave the way for REAL VR, what we have now is neat and really cool and im glad i get to watch it progress but its still lacking and its a far cry away from its full potential look at things like the matrix, yes its a movie but how many things from sci-fi movies actually exist now or are being developed.

 

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmS8P-e7URw - Disclaimer this is only a statue with seeminly minor things like being able to move very few parts for the "transformation"

theres another one that shows someone getting into one and actually piloting it, granted it moved very slowly its still proof we could have giant robots to beat each other with someday