Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login
Galea: The most advanced biosensing VR headset (galea.co)
7 points by LorenDB 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



> EEG - 10 channels dry, soft-polymer active electrodes > EMG - 4 channels > EXG - 2 channels > EOG - 2 channels

I thought "EXG" was generally used to indicate "EEG, EMG, ECG or EOG" ... but in the context where they've listed the others, I don't know what the separate "EXG" channels are supposed to measure. Is this like, "we have two spare dangling electrodes and you're free to stick them wherever -- you decide"?


Has any company done anything interesting with dry electrode EEGs? Most of the ones I've found use hacks like sensing head orientation or muscle twitches rather than brain signals. Dry electrodes seem to be useful for sensing "calm"/"focus" states but can't get any real data out of them.

The most interesting one I've seen is NextMind which uses flickering visual stimuli that is picked up by the brain sensor, but this is a more cumbersome version of eye tracking.

https://www.youtube.com/@perrikaryal/videos has some interesting EEGs based game control demos but it's clickbait since most of the inputs come from head tracking with a single bit (i.e, button down/up) of input from the EEG. And that can be done much better with a blink detector.


I did a project in 2015 using a Muse EEG headset to detect varying levels of brain activity to generate insect, frog and snake sounds. From the data I saw, it was more than just calm/focus.


I don't get how companies in VR still don't understand that bulky VR sets are just not going to be popular.

I just want a pair of glasses with ascii text output, a camera, microphone, and a link to my smartphone to do all the heavy compute (or offload it to the cloud)


Meta is apparently working on a pair of AR glasses that might have everything you want: https://www.roadtovr.com/report-meta-ar-glasses-orion-connec...


No, they are doing a more complex AR style with graphics that is going to be flashy. Not needed. Too much power to drive the displays, adds to device weight and bulkiness, e.t.c.

Simple transparent oled display output is all that is needed.

https://www.crystalfontz.com/product/cfal12856a00151b-128x56.... Pair of those, in some frames with a USBC power/data controller, cheap price, done.

You can probably even get creative with 3d stuff if you figure out the correct offset per eye pixel wise for each display.


If you don't actually want a HUD you could just use a Gopro and smartwatch.


I do want a HUD, because it matches the "what im looking at" with text displayed on device.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: