Valve co -founder and CEO Gabie Neville, the back company Half -life And Dot 2 And The counter strike And the PC Game Distribution Platform Steam, has long been played with the idea that your brain should connect more than your computer. These Had begun a decade ago People’s biological reaction to video games was studied with psychologists abroad. Valve once considered aerlob monitor For its first VR headset. The company discovered the idea publicly Mental computer interface for gaming In GDC in 2019.
But Neville decided to remove the idea. The same year, He added quietly A new mental computer interface startup, starfish neuro science-that has now revealed plans to develop its first mental chip later this year.
Starfish’s first blog postStain By Valve Visor Brad LynchIt makes it clear that we are not yet talking about a complete implant. It is a little custom “electro -physiology” chip designed to record mental activity (such as how neuronic can read your brain so that the patient can interact with the computer) and can trigger the brain (for disease therapy), but it is not a person to make a stars to make it a stars.
“We expect their first chips arriving at the end of 2025 We are interested in finding colleagues for whom such a chip will open new and interesting paths“Starfish Neuro Engineer writes Net Sermic (his bowling), which suggests that Star Fish can be closed with other companies for wireless strength or even the brain’s last implant.
But the star Fish writes, the purpose is a small and less invasive implant than competition, which “enables access to multiple brain areas simultaneously” instead of just one site, and one that does not require battery. Using only 1.1 mg during “normal recording”, Starfish says it can work with wireless power transmission instead.
Here is the current specific sheet of chip:
Neurlinic’s N1 for comparisons, its 64 brain -infected threads have 1,024 electrode, A chip that eaten about 6 ml watts by 2019A battery that requires wireless charging from time to time, and is a full implant (then, not just chip) 23 mm wide and 8 mm thick. Elon Kasturi’s company has already allegedly put it in three humans. While something Threads were separated From the patient’s brain first, he still has functionality and Have been giving interviews.
Starfish says that to solve problems like Parkinson’s disease, it may be necessary to connect with several parts of the brain simultaneously rather than just one region. Sermic writes, “There is an increasing evidence that several nerve disorders contain circuit surface defects, which can be brought wrongly between brain regions.”
In addition to multiple brain implants simultaneously, Says the company’s latest website It is working on a “precision hypertiermia device” to eliminate the tumor with the target heat, and mentally read, robotally guided transcript of the magnetic stimulation (TMS) system for nerve conditions such as bipolar disorder and depression.
If you are wondering how any of these can get back to gaming, I will leave you with a valve conversation about the GDC from 2019 about the brain computer interface.