{"id":338825,"date":"2017-04-20T02:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1478827"},"modified":"2017-04-20T02:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:33:03","slug":"facebooks-augmented-future-could-involve-brain-implants-but-its-not-1984-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebooks-augmented-future-could-involve-brain-implants-but-its-not-1984-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s augmented future could involve brain implants, but it\u2019s not \u20181984\u2019 yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook\u2019s augmented reality future may be taking the form of selfie filters today, but in the future, the company wants to let you interact with the world only by using your brain.<\/p>\n

Regina Dugan, who leads\u00a0Facebook\u2019s Building 8 group, gave a remarkable\u00a0marketing spiel\u00a0on the company\u2019s efforts in shaping the future of human-computer interaction and imagining a future where you can control AR glasses with the brain.<\/p>\n

During the F8 keynote, she urged the audience to imagine: \u201cWhat if you could type with your brain?\u201d<\/p>\n

Details were relatively scant as to what this would really look like, though a Stanford University experiment Dugan referenced relied on \u201can array of electrodes the size of a pea\u201d implanted inside the subject\u2019s brain. This obviously initially sounds pretty horrifying for\u00a0a company that has had such an issue with privacy issues; Dugan made efforts\u00a0to allay future fears by saying that these devices couldn\u2019t read your silent thoughts, but instead allowed you to control a \u201cbrain mouse\u201d that would one day\u00a0allow you to type up to 100 words per minute.<\/p>\n

Dugan says that \u201cno one has the right\u201d to decode your silent thoughts, but the fact that\u2019s even something that has to be said says something scary about where technology is headed. Oculus has already dealt with some\u00a0blowback for its Terms and Conditions, which give Facebook access to your movements and where you\u2019re looking in VR, what these scandals look like in the future could be even more invasive.<\/p>\n

The team at Building 8 has around 60 scientists working across disciplines to research this technology. There is an awful lot of hype in this space at the moment, despite the fact that most see the tech as decades down the road. It was recently reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is starting a similar brain interface startup called Neuralink<\/a> focused, for now, on developing the capabilities of the brain.<\/p>\n

When is this pipe dream going to be a reality? Understandably there\u2019s not a launch date in site, but Dugan says the company hopes to show off a system in\u00a0\u201ca few years time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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