Aug 01, 2019 13:00:00

Facebook Announces Prospects for Technologies that Directly Transfer Information Between the Brain and PC, such as 'Communication with Telepathy'

Facebook reports that '

Brain Computer Interface (BCI), which directly exchanges signals with the brain and computer, has made rapid progress in recent years,' and announced plans for the new future that BCI technology will shape doing.

Imagining a new interface: Hands-free communication without saying a word
https://tech.fb.com/imagining-a-new-interface-hands-free-communication-without-saying-a-word/

How Facebook's brain-machine interface measures up | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/31/how-facebooks-brain-machine-interface-measures-up/

This presentation was triggered by a research funded by Facebook in July 2019 called 'Reading options selected by people directly from brain waves'. The details of this study can be read from the following articles.

Succeeded in developing a system that can predict with high accuracy which of prepared questions and answers were selected from brain signals-GIGAZINE

In this study, the options read from the brain are limited to pre-specified specific ones, and their accuracy is around 70%. The current BCI technology is still developing and not practical. Facebook says it plans to improve the accuracy of the in-brain signal reading system and achieve processing speeds that read 1000 words at 83% or better accuracy and 100 words per minute in real time.

Facebook predicts that BCI technology will make further progress in 10 or 20 years from the recent increase in interest in brain science and technology and its speed of development. The announcement is close to the determination that Facebook's Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) research and development department

Reality Labs will focus on BCI technology and shape a new future.

The current BCI technology is based on electrodes directly implanted in the brain, and the type of BCI technology directly implanted in the brain is also successful in moving the robot arm or flying an airplane in VR space.

A woman who freely manipulates a robot arm by 'think only' succeeds in flying a stealth fighter F-35-GIGAZINE

Facebook is hoping to develop BCI technology in wearable devices, not embedded, as there is a safety issue with embedded technology in the brain. Facebook is a headgear-type wearable BCI device, focusing on the principle that oxygen is consumed when neurons are activated, and a system that indirectly measures the brain activity by detecting changes in brain oxygen concentration with

near-infrared light And being in development.

Not only does Facebook benefit from BCI technology to improve the lives of people with physical disabilities, it also notes that the development of BCI technology is beneficial to everyone in the world, such as hands-free smartphones. We have expressed our stance to work with an eye on the future of a long span of 20 years.