{"id":171815,"date":"2023-09-11T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-tweak-meta-vr-headset-to-measure-brain-activity"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:25:58","slug":"scientists-tweak-meta-vr-headset-to-measure-brain-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-tweak-meta-vr-headset-to-measure-brain-activity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists tweak Meta VR headset to measure brain activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-tweak-meta-vr-headset-to-measure-brain-activity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Testing time: To see whether the modified VR headset could accurately record brain activity, the researchers had four participants wear it while opening or closing their eyes on command. There is typically an increase in alpha waves in a person\u2019s brain when their eyes are closed, and the researchers could see this increase in the EEG data recorded by their headset.<\/p>\n<p>They also had the participants wear the headset while playing a custom game designed to trigger a type of brain activity that occurs when a person is preparing for an event. As hoped, the researchers were able to see this activity in the recorded EEG data, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead: <\/strong>The UT Austin team has started filing the paperwork to patent their tech and say they\u2019d be open to working with VR companies to incorporate it into their systems. They don\u2019t say what it costs to make the soft electrodes, so it\u2019s not clear exactly how much consumers or professionals should expect to pay for a modified VR headset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing time: To see whether the modified VR headset could accurately record brain activity, the researchers had four participants wear it while opening or closing their eyes on command. There is typically an increase in alpha waves in a person\u2019s brain when their eyes are closed, and the researchers could see this increase in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}