1) History2) What is Emotiv EPOC?3) How it works?4) Software & SDK5) Comparison6) Advantages7) Limitations8) Conclusion9) References

Founded in 2003 by neuroscientist Professor Allan Snyder, chip-designer Neil Weste, and technology entrepreneurs Tan Le and Nam Do

• High resolution, multi-channel, wireless neuroheadset

• A set of 14 sensors plus 2 references to detect the user’s thoughts, feelings and expression

• Lifting, Dropping, Pushing, Rotating, Object vanish• Excitement, Tension, Boredom, Meditation,

Frustration• Winking, Laughing, Crossing eyes, Appearing

shocked, Smiling, Getting Angry

• Ships with a demo game called Spirit Mountain• Includes EmoKey software used to emulate

keystrokes • Planned web site known as Emortal• SDK Lite:- Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora & Mac OS X• Emokit is an open-source and cross-platform Python

and C library for reading out sensor data from the EPOC

Device Price Electrodes Sensors Intercept

Mindware $99.95 1 2 mental states (based on 4 brainwaves), eye blinks

Emotiv EPOC

$299 14 4 mental states (based on brainwaves), 13 conscious thoughts, facial expressions, head movements (sensed by 2 gyros)

XWave headset

$90 1 8 EEG Bands

MyndPlay BrainBand

$199 1 8 EEG Bands

• Potential for EEG Research• Helpful to Handicaps • Faster than usual means to

manipulate objects• More effective than

traditional ways

• Many applications are in beta phases• Most of the people are yet to be familiarized

• It will bring the mind control experience to the whole new level

• Future of artificial intelligence, gaming and much more• As detection techniques improve , it will be used by vast

number of individuals