Monday, July 14, 2014

Control Google Glass with your Thoughts, Forget "OK Google"

Posted by lakshyagoel on 9:16 AM with No comments

Even before Google Glass can take a commercial stand in the wearables market, its hot-word “OK Google” will soon be a thing of past. A team of an interactive studio, This Place, London is developing an app and a device which will be connected to the Glass and then your thoughts will do all your work. Yes, it will be power of your thoughts that will control the Glass like clicking a picture and can even post it on Facebook for you.
MindRDR as the app is called, connects Google Glass with another piece of head-mounted device, the Neurosky EEG Biosensor, to create a communication loop.
It picks up brain waves that correlate to your ability to focus. Concentrate hard until a white line appears on Google Glass screen. The reading superimposes on the camera of Glass and as the reading goes up, app gives it the command to click a photo of what is in front of our eyes. Focus more and that is posted on Twitter, like this :



It’s quite a primitive stage of what your mind can do but for £71 and a free app it’s not bad (Although glass costs about £1000). Although Google Glass along with its head gear may get a bit clumsy but in the near future this can be used to create a whole variety of apps to train to concentrate or in medical to train people with mobility problems.
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Google Glass, for all the glasshole drawbacks, has become a reference point that has inspired some interesting applications and concepts for where wearable technology may take us in the future. That’s included ways to use Glass to pay for things, and how Glass can be used by doctors and other clinicians. Kirton, This Place's Creative director says, "MindRDR is so far the only app that links Google Glass with brainwave-reading technology".


Source : This Place, TOI
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