VR Mind Control Is HERE! And It Works!

welcome to the oasis my name is mike and today i want to show you something that literally blew my mind now if you follow the channel you'll know that i love crazy vr accessories i've tried loads of weird and wonderful things over the years including haptic vests omnidirectional treadmills exoskeleton gloves recoil gun stocks and i almost gave myself third degree burns from a device that could provide hot and cold feedback in vr called tegway but what i'm gonna show you today literally takes the biscuit it's by far the weirdest vr accessory i've ever tried so let's get right into it and without further ado let's dive in so over the years controllers for vr headsets have evolved we now have controllers with individual finger tracking capacitive touch sensors and the quest has allowed us to use our hands alone to navigate the system's user interface with the recent hand tracking update so what i'm going to show you today isn't designed to replace those controllers but instead add a new control method on top of what we currently use and that new control method is mind control it sounds crazy right but this is a real product called next mind which is a brain computer interface it's currently available as a development kit and the team at next mind kindly sent me one over for me to try out it's a small and lightweight device at just 60 grams and can easily be clipped onto the back of a baseball cap or a head strap of a vr headset it contains an internal rechargeable battery which lasts up to eight hours and is charged via usbc the device features nine comb shaped sensors which make contact with the back of your head and can read the signals from the visual cortex of your brain which are then sent to the pc via bluetooth giving you the ability to control digital actions with your mind alone it sounds completely crazy and that's because it is so now i'm going to power this thing up and show you it in action as i have some flat screen and vr demos to try and then i'll talk a bit more about how it works and my conclusion on this technology okay so as you can see i've attached the next mind to the back of my baseball cap here there is a strap included in the box but this seemed a little bit more comfortable for me and i've got all the software installed so now i'm just going to go through the setup and calibration process so i've got the device turned on and bluetooth is enabled on my machine you can see that the next mine device is already connected and we've got a battery status here and also how well it's connected to the back of my head and as you can see here the green on these contacts means that it's got perfect contact to the back of my head now this could be that i've got a bold head essentially you know maybe it would cause more problems if you had more hair and he wasn't uh follicly challenged like me but you know it's the first time that i've ever been told that my mind is perfect so i'm happy with that so let's carry on start the calibration hold still and stay focused i've got it so i'm focusing on the uh the lines there that seemed to work okay so let's stay focused on this yeah okay so i got a perfect score that's pretty cool so it seems like my mind is completely primed for doing this sort of thing so this is the fun part you've got these three circles in front of me and i can just choose which one i want to pick just by focusing on it so let's pick the far right one and now the far left and now the far right again another middle it's completely insane that it actually works i i i don't really understand it but let's carry on try some more demos and see what we can do with the power of my mind okay so this is controlling a tv so let's uh check out the news i can pause it or i can turn the sound off okay let's turn the sound back on is it insane i feel like i have some kind of superpowers that's nuts okay so now we've got a music composer here so let's try and make some beautiful music with just the power of my mind nice get some more drums in there oh yeah this is my jam get some ambience get some synths in there starting with the low some high in there this is so nuts wow okay let's just restart this this is how you restart the whole thing [Music] and then we're back this is completely blowing my mind right now i can't believe how well this actually works so let's try a couple more demos before we move on to the vr one okay so this is a basic little platforming game and what we can do is we can focus on those rocks to destroy them and move them out of the way of our little character and also blow up enemies with my mind oh jedi powers oh oh no focus mike focus focus focus focus focus focus focus focus focus focus whoa that was great that was crazy oh let's destroy this enemy first [Laughter] eat it noobs feel the power of my mind well we finished it we finished the game so now that we've had some fun with the pc flat screen demos now it's time to jump into vr and try out their vr demo using the oculus quest 2 and virtual desktop so this is the vr demo and just like before with the pc version not using my hands or anything else i'm literally just using the power of my mind and i'm using it to blow up these aliens so it's time for e.t to go home i feel like professor x i feel like i have to do like a focus oh dodge it blow up his mind there we go and we can teleport by focusing on the uh teleportation marker over there there we go i feel like i need to be in that wheelchair like professor x rolling around blowing up these aliens with my mind all right let's dodge the incoming fire focus [Laughter] so i'm focusing on his on his feet i'm looking around him nothing's happening but then if i focus my mind on his brain and look at the pattern really focus on the pattern he explodes so now i'm going to try and explain how this technology works in the most basic way i possibly can and that starts with a mind-blowing fact that i recently learned and that is that you don't actually see with your eyes you see with your brain for example this video that you're watching now your eyes are just the middle man between the images of this video and the visual cortex of your brain so when i'm wearing the next mind device and focusing on these objects in both the flat screen and vr experience each of these objects has a unique signature pattern overlay which is being read by the visual cortex of my brain these signatures and signals in the visual cortex can be picked up and identified by the next mind device which are then sent to the pc to process them and translate them into an action the next mind is a non-invasive device which just reads the signal from your brain it can't actually write to the brain and you can opt in and out of any data that you wish to share with the company tech like this seems like complete science fiction but it might not actually be as far into the future as you might think because next mind aren't the only ones that believe this technology could change the way we work and play forever brain computer interfaces have been a hot topic recently with elon musk going a few steps further by wanting to actually implant a chip into your brain which can both read and write called neural link gabe newell from valve is also excited about this tech and recently did an interview with the new zealand news network talking about the research and development they're doing with brain computer interfaces and how the sensors could be implemented into the head strap and facial interface of future vr headsets i'll add a link to the whole interview with gabe in the description down below it's absolutely fascinating to watch and i'd urge you to check it out but going back to next mind even though this is just the beginning i'm super impressed with it as it was very simple to set up and use and it made me feel like i had a superhuman ability it's not perfect by any means and still has a long way to go for example right now it can only be used to read your brain signals to essentially turn a switch on or off and the response time is kind of slow it doesn't give you that full jedi powers feeling whereby you could move an object around the screen with your mind alone but with developerwork they could certainly create game experiences that replicate that feeling by using this device to activate scripted sequences in game just imagine a game that uses this technology in a way that mind control is part of the game's narrative and the character that you play has telekinesis powers and can collect ammo and supplies using your mind whilst traditional controllers are used to control movement and other in-game actions or imagine a star wars game where you could use jedi mind tricks to convince stormtroopers to move along or even a game engine that could sense if you were getting bored in the game and automatically adapt on the fly and ramp up the difficulty that would be totally awesome i have to be honest when next mind initially approached me i was very skeptical but now having tried it i'm incredibly excited to see where this technology goes in the future okay so that is next mind it's just a development kit right now which costs 399 us dollars and next mind are focusing on getting this into the hands of developers so they can build the games and applications integrating the next mind sdk to utilize this new and exciting technology if you're a developer i've added a link to their website in the description down below i found playing around with this tech that it gave me that feeling of something really special and futuristic and took me back to the excitement of trying virtual reality for the first time and knowing that someday it will be huge in the future the applications beyond gaming for this kind of tech is limitless and just think how something like this could transform the lives of people with disabilities or restricted mobility who could go about their lives controlling objects with their minds alone pretty crazy stuff but let me know what you think of nexmind in the comments down below do you think this could be a part of the future of vr what applications and games would you like to control with your mind or what applications can you see beyond just gaming i'd love to know in the comments down below leave a like if you liked the video and you found it interesting make sure you're subscribed for my future vr content and as always i'll see you on the next one [Applause] cheers [Music] foreign

Channel: Virtual Reality Oasis

Views: 1,866,238

Keywords: VR mind control, VR mind control device, VR brain computer interface, Virtual Reality Mind Control, Virtual Reality Brain Computer Interface, next mind, next mind vr, next mind virtual reality, Valve Brain computer interface, VR brain control, Virtual Reality brain control, VR BCI, Virtual Reality BCI, next mind vr demo, next mind review, next mind gameplay, oculus quest 2, Virtual Reality, VR, oculus quest 2 accessories, vr accessories, Next Mind Oculus Quest 2, nextmind

Id: SMXfyZc_Gvg

Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 02 2021

Reddit Comments

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