{"id":214580,"date":"2025-05-23T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/digital-frontier-where-brain-computer-interfaces-ar-vr-could-one-day-meet"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:09:01","slug":"digital-frontier-where-brain-computer-interfaces-ar-vr-could-one-day-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/digital-frontier-where-brain-computer-interfaces-ar-vr-could-one-day-meet","title":{"rendered":"Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces &amp; AR\/VR Could One Day Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPGa_FuGPIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants\u2014or basically how it\u2019s portrayed in <em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em>. In that world, you can read, write, and speak to others without needing to lift a finger or open your mouth. It sounds fantastical, but the more I learn about BCI, the more I\u2019ve come to realize that this wish list of functions is really only the tip of the iceberg. And when AR and VR converge with the consumer-ready BCI of the future, the world will be much stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Be it Elon Musk\u2019s latest company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuralink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neuralink <\/a>\u2014which is creating \u201cminimally invasive\u201d neural implants to suit a wide range of potential future applications, or Facebook directly funding research on <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.fb.com\/imagining-a-new-interface-hands-free-communication-without-saying-a-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decoding speech<\/a> from the human brain\u2014BCI seems to be taking an important step forward in its maturity. And while these well-funded companies can only push the technology forward for its use as a medical devices today thanks to regulatory hoops governing implants and their relative safety, eventually the technology will get to a point when it\u2019s both safe and cheap enough to land into the brainpan\u2019s of neurotypical consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Although there\u2019s really no telling when you or I will be able to pop into an office for an outpatient implant procedure (much like how corrective laser eye surgery is done today), we know at least that this particular future will undoubtedly come alongside significant advances in augmented and virtual reality. But before we consider where that future might lead us, let\u2019s take a look at where things are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants\u2014or basically how it\u2019s portrayed in Ghost in the Shell. In that world, you can read, write, and speak to others without needing to lift a finger or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,1523,1499,2019,418,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214580","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}