I was on the list for a SDK at CTRL-Labs before FB swooped in and bought them. I'm really bummed I couldn't get ahold of one first.
In having on-again, off-again RSI issues over the years from coding, I think this tech would be hugely beneficial and is more realistic to ship in the near future.
I also have RSI and it stops me from being a productive programmer, playing any sort of video game, and completely ruined my life for a couple years. If I get really good sleep I can use the computer for a couple hours without any pain at all but normally I'm relegated to only using my hands for a little bit each day otherwise I'll injure them. I tried using voice to text but then I injured my vocal chords using it. Physical therapy and Rehabilitation is slow and I doubt I'll ever be able to have the full use of my voice and hands again. Having a BCI would improve my quality of life immensely.
Have you tried strength training? Do you use a tenting split keyboard and vertical mouse? Do you have a good chair, decent posture, and a desk at the proper height? Those things solved my RSI.
i would guess that anything that works for coding/computing use cases is a long ways off. like speech recognition, these things rely heavily on language models...
i suppose we have language models for code now, but i suspect it would still be frustrating- at least in the short term.
Wrt to the wristband, the concept and hardware is simple enough that were it not for Facebook nightmare lawyers and patents it could be a cheap maker community staple. Under Facebook, it will fail - nobody wants Facebook tracking literally everything they type.
Huh? This technology (using electromyography to detect hand/arm movements) has been around for at least 6 years (https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/myo-gesture-control-armband) but has not become a "community staple". The company producing the armband actually shelved the product because it was so bad and focused their efforts on AR glasses instead.
In having on-again, off-again RSI issues over the years from coding, I think this tech would be hugely beneficial and is more realistic to ship in the near future.