She has reservations about the technology that has produced immersive personal devices like music players, smartphones and video headsets.
In a brief demo video, the headset appeared to be a modified Rift with a compute module embedded into the back of the headset.
Emotiv Unveils World's First Brain-Controlled Video Gaming Headset [BusinessWire].
Facebook has also developed a pyramid encoding technique that makes virtual reality videos for headsets 80% smaller.
The experiments demonstrate that the infrared headset video contains comparable speech information to the studio, full-face video data, thus being a viable sensory device for audio-visual ASR.
Given that gaming consoles often include voice headsets, video cameras, and other identifiers, the potential for joining together biometric information with activities was also an exciting one.
It's admittedly a bit unusual to see a company with such substantial backing pushing most of its chips in on 3D 360 video, but as headset-makers like Magic Leap (another a16z bet) and others focus their energies on consumer smartglasses powered by light field displays, startups like Lytro are able to see a potential world where its technology could be indispensable.
"Meanwhile, the world is moving into increased interactivity ― 3D video, virtual reality headsets, always-on celebrities.
The electrodes' headset, video-ECoG/EEG acquisition, amplification and storage were as previously described (D'Ambrosio et al., 2005).
Astro Gaming has long designed premium headsets for video game aficionados, and its latest, the A50 wireless headset, updates it for fans.
