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I recently met their CEO, he's a brilliant guy. They recently bought an EEG neuroscience company and are already doing some really cool work with that technolo
by josephpmay 11y ago
I recently met their CEO, he's a brilliant guy.
They recently bought an EEG neuroscience company and are already doing some really cool work with that technology. For example, if you stare at a switch, you might want to flip that switch, or perhaps you were just staring into space. What DAQRI does is have the switch pulse and then measure your EEG signal. If your stress level spikes, you didn't want the switch to flip. If the opposite happens, you did want to flip the switch and the action goes through. Their helmets also use the EEG sensor (combined with an oximeter I think) to be able to detect heart attacks and call an ambulance before you realize what's happening.
They also took over actively maintaining ARToolkit, which had become neglected in recent years. The reason they did this was they hated seeing researchers using Vuforia (a closed source black-box) and wanted the standard for AR to be open source again.
- hanniabu 11y agoThe measuring of the stress level is a really smart idea. Do you know if this is a common practice to check actions?
- josephpmay 11y agoI know it's been used previously to help the physically disabled type, but I'm not sure if it's used elsewhere.
- smcl 11y agoCan you explain the bit about the switch a little better? I can't understand what is being controlled by what. Is it a physical switch in real life (i.e. is this an augmented reality thing) or is this a button in the UI
- iDemonix 11y agoIt sounds like he was referring to a UI switch.
- nullhypothesis 11y agoI am very curious about the EEG bit you are talking about. If I remember, they bought MINDO which only uses frontal electrodes. Now, I do not understand why a flashing switch should create stress.
- pflats 11y ago>Now, I do not understand why a flashing switch should create stress. "Oh, shoot, no, I don't want that switch to flip!" I wonder, though, if after enough use, you'll acclimate to the device being "smart", and no longer stress about the switch flipping. I suppose the problem solves itself, though, because one false positive puts you right back into the stress zone.
- jbattle 11y agoIt's an unpleasant thought - getting acclimated to avoiding looking at things for fear of activating them
- Domenic_S 11y agoLike when you see the highway patrol on your commute...
- angelbob 11y agoA lot of the current prototypes use head position and have a little (usually circular) status-bar-type thing that fills in. You quickly learn that if you look at a thing and you don't want it to activate, turn your head a bit before the status bar hits full :-)
- angelbob 11y agoThe company was called "Melon".