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Snap buys a brain-computer interface startup to power future AR glasses
Snap has bought the brain-computer interface startup NextMind to power future Spectacles AR glasses.
NextMind's brain-computer interface is ready for developers
Beyond size and aesthetics, NextMind’s technology also seems fairly mature. Mostly because we’ll need to wait for a library of apps to be built for it first, but also it’s still a new technology -- and it takes some practice to become “fluent” with it, as my terrible performance on a mind-controlled game of Breakout can attest. Right now, the applications are pretty simple: Mostly controlling media and games and so on, but NextMind’s founder and CEO, Sid Kouider is confident the technology will evolve to the point where you can simply think of an image to search for it, for example.
