{"id":96690,"date":"2019-09-26T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/facebook-plans-to-make-a-mind-reading-wristband"},"modified":"2019-09-27T02:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:00:54","slug":"facebook-plans-to-make-a-mind-reading-wristband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/facebook-plans-to-make-a-mind-reading-wristband","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Plans To Make A Mind-Reading Wristband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-plans-to-make-a-mind-reading-wristband6.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By this time, we can all conclude that Facebook is really ambitious when it comes to the production of high-end gadgets. This when you consider the Oculus line of devices, a VR wristband and RayBan AR glasses. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, a new device is up for development.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now revealed plans to build a mind-reading wristband letting people control devices without touching them. This is after the company finally acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrl-labs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CTRL-Labs<\/a>, a startup that is currently venturing into brain-computer interfaces. The deal has been reported to value at $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was then announced by Andrew Bosworth, Vice President of AR and VR at Facebook. \u201cWe spend a lot of time trying to get our technology to do what we want rather than enjoying the people around us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this time, we can all conclude that Facebook is really ambitious when it comes to the production of high-end gadgets. This when you consider the Oculus line of devices, a VR wristband and RayBan AR glasses. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, a new device is up for development. The company has now revealed plans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690","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\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96727,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690\/revisions\/96727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}