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- Feels like such a misnomer, but I guess that's marketing.
I remember when OCZ NIA came out and it claimed BCI and it was effectively doing muscle activity too.
At least meta is properly representing what it does!
by jasonjmcghee - Very interesting. So how open is the neural band to hack on? Do you expect this to be something to get patched out eventually if you update? Seems like a really cool platform to develop against outside of the intended ecosystem.by f0e4c2f7
- I want to wear 2 of these bands and have multi touch AR. In thinking like pinch to zoom for reality.by NDlurker
- You can do that without bands since 2019 with the Meta Quest. Hand tracking and (for that old one only black & white) video pass through is enough, no need to additional hardware.by utopiah
- I've heard from several people who've tried the KiWear ring that the experience is close to using the neural band. Different form factor and technology though.by tash_2s
- Kinesis is a legendary keyboard brand.
- I seem to have completely missed the Neural Band as this is my first time even seeing it, but I have to admit - it does look quite cool.
Anyone have any long-term hands-on experience with it? Would love to know if it feels clunky or not...
by sammyteee - Meta doesn’t sell these separately from the glasses :(
Are they patented to heck and back or can another manufacturer make a EMG bracelet for controlling a PC?
by easton - by jdpigeon
- Not sure how well it works but that is supposed to do the same thingby blensor
- Great to explore alternative interfaces and repurpose existing hardware without having to rely on the manufacturer implementation.
Have you considered providing GadgetBridge support? I don't see anything on https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues?stat... but it could bring interesting combinatorial possibilities.
For anybody who wants to try that without any extra hardware but just your webcam give a go to https://codepen.io/mediapipe/pen/bGweWyR based on MediaPipe Hands in JavaScript https://chuoling.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/hands.html
You can bind a hand position or gesture (e.g. going from one position to another) to a desktop command by running this in the background on your NodeJS companion app and spawn() for the commands.
FWIW did something similar using OpenCV https://fabien.benetou.fr/Portfolio/PostureMaintenance 15 years go.
If you also are interested in gaze tracking https://lebmatter.github.io/gazerjs/ is another Web based example.
by utopiah - Kinesis is already a word and an Amazon product, might have better discoverability naming your project something unique and specific.by pluc
- Amazon was already a word.
Facebook was already a word.
Meta was already a word.
You're right. They would have been much more successful if they had chosen "something unique and specific".
by moralestapia - And a band, and a company, and a .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesis
Do you think it's likely someone goes looking for the real-time data processing platform, lands on this GitHub and gets confused?
- The vibe coders have finally discovered their killer interface, and it is kind of cool, especially if integrated with voice inputs.by fidotron
- This looks like it could potentially be a huge productivity win. The ergonomics seem tantalizingly similar to the infamous scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise manipulates translucent data streams with his bare hands.
Could I suggest that you shoot a new promotional demo video with enough lighting that viewers can see your hands? Personally I'd be very curious to see and understand the actual gestures that support a real world workflow involving multiple desktops and applications, with the hands transitioning as needed between neural band mode for navigation vs. keyboard/mouse mode for fine-grained motor inputs.
- That scene in Minority Report looked cool but how tiring would it be to have your hands suspended in the air for 8 hours a day?by dabinat
- The neural band always looked more interesting than the glasses tbh.
I've been moving more and more away from terminal and IDEs, and I've been exploring how I could move to a flip phone / table + compact keyboard as most of my development time is now possible to be done via just using TTS.
I'd be interested in exploring if something like this could remove the need for a mouse or touching the screen as well.
Some alternatives that are not bound to the meta glasses: Mudra Link (USD 299), Mudra Band for Apple Watch (USD 350), MindRove Armband (USD 800, wow), SiFi Labs SiFi Band (no price), OYMotion gForce Pro+ (USD 1250, ok this side project is starting to look expensive)
by geoah - The neural band could become a standard interface for situations where keyboards and mice are not practical.by UltraSane
- Consider also Tap Band then.
I worked a bit with Tap Strap on XR and without but in my experience once you master a keyboard nothing comes close while manipulating text, e.g code.
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