“Researchers from Austria and Slovenia have developed a device called Brainloop which can be used to navigate in Google Earth:
Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery such as “move left hand”, “move right hand” or “move feet” become non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages and commands to the external world. In Brainloop the performer is able – without physically moving – to investigate urban areas and rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop to compose a custom soundtrack by selecting, manipulating and re-locating audio recordings in real time into the physical space.”
(Be sure to check out the video on the Neurophilosophy site)
via Neurophilosophy
December 6, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I whish this research would get on with it so that we have full body movement including eye movement. There is an impetus to get products on the markets to make sales to the general public and to give assistance to the needed. I would like to see them finish mapping movement even if this mapping is movement-projections-only, which I think is all it would take to make online projections.