NextMind has started shipping its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit for $399. The device translates brain signals into digital commands, allowing you to control computers, AR/VR headsets, and IoT devices (lights, TVs, music, games, and so on) with your visual attention.
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NextMind is developing a noninvasive device — an electroencephalogram (EEG) worn on the back of your head, where your brain’s visual cortex is located.
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The NextMind Dev Kit includes a NextMind Sensor, the brain-sensing wearable with an adjustable headband, and the NextMind Engine, which comprises real-time machine learning algorithms that transform neural signals into commands. Developers also get the NextMind SDK, which features ready-to-use Unity resources, such as tutorials, demo apps and games, and code building blocks.
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Every time you use a NextMind device, the company recommends you calibrate the wearable first. It takes about 45 seconds to create a neural profile. In a few months, the team hopes to entirely eliminate this step.
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The Dev Kit ships with five demos. Two are very similar to the demos I tried with the prototype last year. Pinpad shows you how to open a lock screen with your mind, and Neuro TV lets you change channels, play or pause the content, and mute or unmute the sound.
The platformer game, which you play with your mind and a game controller, is short but slightly more complex than the previous version.
There are also two new apps: a music composer and Brickbreaker
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NextMind is also in discussion with 25 companies to sign contracts for the company’s enterprise kits. Those partnerships, which NextMind has already signed with three firms, involve integrating the technology into future products that will “come out in the next few years.” Kouider declined to name the three firms but said they include a carmaker, an entertainment company, and a gaming company.
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It’s not very comfortable, whether you’re wearing it by itself or with a VR headset. Kouider promised the next generations will be smaller. He declined to talk about version 2, the smaller iteration of NextMind’s device the company has already been working on for more than a year.