The New York-based startup is building a wristband that lets people control digital devices with their mind.
in March he sees the wristband as a “universal controller for all your interactions with technology.”, citing sources familiar with the transaction.
The startup will be part of Facebook Reality Labs, a division inside Facebook focusing virtual and augmented reality projects. CTRL Labs raised $28 million in a February funding round led by GV, formerly Google Ventures. The startup has raised a total of $67 million from investors such as the Amazon Alexa Fund, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Lux Capital, according to Pitchbook.: Boz said the wristband detects electrical signals from your spinal cord that tell your hand muscles how to move.
“It captures your intention so you can share a photo with a friend using an imperceptible movement or just by, well, intending to,” he said.: Facebook announced its plans to build a brain-computer interface in 2017. Since then, the most significant signs of progress came from a Facebook-funded in July from researchers at the University of California San Francisco. There, scientists were able to detect intended speech from patients with neurological damage in real time.
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