Electrodes for Your Face Bring Your Emotions to Augmented and Virtual Reality
Tej Tadi is really excited about the foam face pad that sits inside a virtual-reality headset on a desk in his office. It’s the kind of mundane piece of cushioning normally found on many kinds of head-mounted displays, but the one his startup, MindMaze, has is different. It’s embedded with electrodes so it can pick up the electrical signals associated with your facial muscle movements, and it’s connected to a computer where software analyzes these signals to reproduce your facial expressions on an on-screen avatar. ….[READ]
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 