Today Facebook revealed it has a
team of 60 engineers working on building a brain-computer interface that will
let you type with just your mind without invasive implants. The team plans to
use optical imaging to scan your brain a hundred times per second to detect you
speaking silently in your head, and translate it into text. The goal is to
eventually allow people to type at 100 words per minute, 5X faster than typing
on a phone, with just your mind.
Eventually, brain-computer
interfaces could let people control augmented reality and virtual reality
experiences with their mind instead of a screen or controller. They only began
working on the brain typing project six months ago, but it now they are
collaborating with UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns
Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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