Emotiv publishes neuro SDK
Slashdot had a story on brain control headsets coming out soon from Emotiv. The company seems to have done a fair bit of research in linking various neural activity to explicit emotions. They’re targeting gaming market, and hoping to introduce game that analyze your emotions as well as kinetic signals that the brain is sending towards the other body organs. What’s also cool is they’re launching an SDK:
Additionally, Emotiv has announced the commercial availability of its full SDK. The SDK has been upgraded significantly since it was first announced in March 2007 at last year’s GDC. The commercially available version of the kit now includes:
- 2 beta-version neuroheadsets
- Software toolkit that exposes the APIs
- Full access to detection libraries
- Suite of development tools for effective creation and integration of applications with content
The Emotiv EPOC is the world’s first consumer neuroheadset. It detects and processes human conscious thoughts and expressions and non-conscious emotions. By integrating the Emotiv EPOC into their games or other applications, developers can dramatically enhance interactivity, gameplay and player enjoyment by, for example, enabling characters to respond to a player’s smile, laugh or frown; by adjusting the game dynamically in response to player emotions such as frustration or excitement; and enabling players to manipulate objects in a game or even make them disappear using the power of their thoughts.
Headset itself will cost $299 once released into commercial production, the SDK details are available here.