{"id":28503,"date":"2016-07-30T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/hololens-hack-fools-the-brain-into-fixing-itself"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:02:04","slug":"hololens-hack-fools-the-brain-into-fixing-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/hololens-hack-fools-the-brain-into-fixing-itself","title":{"rendered":"HoloLens Hack Fools the Brain Into Fixing Itself"},"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\/tjoe3LrkiIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/microsoft-s-latest-hololens-is-here-and-it-s-amazing-1748158005\">amazing HoloLens<\/a> is the world\u2019s first stand-alone headset that lets users see virtual objects and environments as if they existed in the real world. This device\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/project-hololens-hands-on-incredible-amazing-prototy-1680934585\">entertainment potential<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/microsofts-wants-to-turn-your-living-room-into-the-holo-1680924508\">practically<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/microsoft-has-some-crazy-ideas-about-how-were-going-to-1756695310\">unlimited<\/a>, but as a Hackathon team recently demonstrated, it can also be used to rewire a malfunctioning brain.<\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft employee suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/condition\/myoclonus-dystonia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">myoclonus-dystonia <\/a>\u2014a condition where the misfiring of the brain causes uncontrollable muscle spasms\u2014discovered that she could regain control during a spasm by looking at her partner\u2019s feet rather than her own. And that\u2019s how she got her great idea: Why not use the HoloLens to retrain the brain and get it to act differently? To that end, she recruited the Microsoft Hackathon team to put the idea to the test.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hololens-hack-fools-the-brain-into-fixing-itself-1784459615\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hololens-hack-fools-the-brain-into-fixing-itself-1784459615<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s amazing HoloLens is the world\u2019s first stand-alone headset that lets users see virtual objects and environments as if they existed in the real world. This device\u2019s entertainment potential is practically unlimited, but as a Hackathon team recently demonstrated, it can also be used to rewire a malfunctioning brain. A Microsoft employee suffering from myoclonus-dystonia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60966,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503\/revisions\/60966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}