After Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is developing device that can read brain signals | – Times of India

Elon Musk-owned Neuralink recently started its first human trials. The company is developing chips that will give humans ‘superpowers’ to control gadgets directly with their brains. The company’s co-founder recently announced that the first patient implanted with the Neuralink chip is recovering well and was able to control a computer mouse with his brain.
However, it seems like the billionaire’s startup is not the only ones in the neural tech race. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also invested in his own neural project. The company is currently focused on developing a wearable device that will be able to read neural signals.

Mark Zuckerberg’s neural tech project: More details

Last week, during the Morning Brew Daily podcast the social media giant’s chief revealed that his company is developing a neural interface band. Zuckerberg said that this device will be capable of interpreting brain signals associated with hand movements and will be able to translate them into accurate gesture commands.
To simplify, Meta is creating a smart band that will be able to understand brain signals linked to hand movements and will be able to convert them into specific gestures.

Zuckerberg described this advanced neural device as being “close” to becoming a consumer product “within the next few years.” He also revealed that this wearable electromyography (EMG) band will be an example of the “power of AI” in the coming days and will be able to overcome the limitations of camera-based gesture recognition.
With this band, users will be “able to type and control something by thinking about how you want to move your hand, but it won’t even be big motions, so I can just sit here, basically typing something to an AI,” he added.

Why Meta is working on a neural interface band

Zuckerberg explained that people’s gestures are uncertain and are susceptible to errors for camera-based tracking. However, brain signals are consistent and can be learned by the “neural interface over time for each person.”
He noted that this band will offer “a completely private and discreet interface” as even the smallest finger movements will be able to produce a strong enough brain signal for the EMG to detect and interpret it as a specific gesture.
According to Zuckerberg, Meta wants to make this wearable tech do more than swipes and enable users with advanced level of typing and interacting in mid-air using just their hands (just like a sci-fi movie).