Posts Tagged ‘Brain-Computer Interfaces’

Mind reading keyboard

{ 06/10/2009 @ 19:40 } · { Brain-Computer Interfaces }
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That’s it! A keyboard you can control with your brain.
This is my new little project using the emotiv epoc. The idea is born from a request on the emotiv forum, when someone asked if a paralized child would have been able to type using the epoc. I thought I could give myself a try with this.

The layout of the keyboard is “stolen” from a psp keyboard appeared for the first time in Gran Turismo, if I’m not wrong and then brought to popularity by the psp homebrew comunity.
My application, called mindKeyboard allows you to select one of 9 quares each with 4 letters in the four sides; once you select the desired square you can select the desired letter in that square.

You can get a video of it in action here
The source code is available from git or in zipped package
The binary distribution is on sourceforge too.

Hope someone will enjoy the application =)

First beta out now

{ 21/09/2009 @ 01:23 } · { Augmented Reality, Brain-Computer Interfaces }
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The first beta is out there. YAY!

Spads and Fokkers first beta

This is a little augmented reality game where you control an airplane against another human opponent driven airplane. The goal is to take your enemy down (fresh new idea huh?). The supported input devices are the classic keyboard and the innovative EPOC, a neuro headset that lets you control the virtual airplanes with your thought!

What you’re getting is an almost fully functional game; the only important thing lacking right now is game ending. So it will never end.
The Spad 3d model is not an actual Spad right now because i haven’t found a free model on the net, so if you know of one, please link it to me.

All installing instructions are provided into the zip package. If you’re a developer the code is opensource and you can get it from here.

Any kind of feedback is really appreciated =)
Thanks for reading.

Spads and Fokkers

{ 12/09/2009 @ 01:07 } · { Augmented Reality, Brain-Computer Interfaces }
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My favourite writer, William Gibson (GreatDismal on twitter) once wrote a short story about a “very augmented” reality game; Dogfight (you have to search for it in that page).
Now we almost got the tech to make it reality, and that’s what i’m working on these days: an augmented reality game where two players control an airplane with their minds and fight each other in the real world environment.

Unlike the short story, I can’t have projectors make the airplanes appear into the real world, but you can see the real world trought an HMD and there I can overlay the virtual airplanes with the real world.
Like the short story the players moves the airplanes with tought, and this is done via the epoc, a brain computer interface sold for about 500$. I don’t actually own one, it’s too expensive, but I’ve access to it’s SDK, so I can develop things with it’s tech.

I’ve already said too much about this thing, so other news will come as I go deeper into developing it.

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