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- From: keithley@applelink.apple.com (Craig Keithley)
- Subject: Neural Interfacing and VR
- Date: 25 Oct 90 03:54:46 GMT
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Campbell II CA
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- Neural Interfacing (and its application to VR) might be here sooner than
- you think.
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- Some 15 years ago a UCLA research project successfully used VERY low end
- minicomputers to detect specific thoughts. The basic idea was/is that it
- possible to pattern match a properly filtered set of brain waves to a
- previously captured sample. When youUve got a good match, you can respond
- to the command in a manner similar to voice recognition.
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- I recommend that you go to your local university library, and borrow the
- thesis entitled:
- Computer System Architecture for a Brain Computer Interface
- Ronald Olch
- 1975(?)
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- RonaldUs master thesis was pretty dry reading about the actual physical
- layout of the lab and and the kinds of minicomputers, punch tape readers,
- plotters, cabling, etc, etc. There was a notable absense of specific
- algorhythms and sample code. I did chuckle a bit when I read a paragraph
- describing what the coming powerful (in 1975?) microprocessors would do to
- improve this process of recognizing thoughts. Its 1990, can you say DSP?
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- Having read this, I managed to track Mr. Olch down and interogated :-) him
- about the actual mechanics of recognizing specific thoughts. Very
- Interesting stuff. Its not as hard as you might think (pun intented!).
- Mr. Olch is no longer involved with this research... But he did tell me
- that the Principal Researcher was a Jaques (sp?) Vidal. While Jaques
- hasnUt published under his name, he has been a co-authored a variety of
- papers which have a lot to do with where VR/Neural Interfacing is going.
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- If anyone has any more thoughts and/or questions, send them to me
- directly... ItUll keep the neural noise on sci.virtual-worlds to a
- reasonable db.
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- Craig Keithley, Apple Computer
- keithley@applelink.apple.com
- keithley@apple.com
- ITS NOT MY FAULT! [standard disclaimer]
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