Chinese scientists make brain-computer co-evolution possible for the first time www.scmp.com/news/china/s... by @LingXin17 via @bioniclab.bsky.social; "world's first two-way adaptive brain-computer interface (BCI), boosting efficiency 100-fold"; #BCI #NeuroTech - ThreadSky

seeingwithsound.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Chinese scientists make brain-computer co-evolution possible for the first time https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3299182/chinese-scientists-make-brain-computer-co-evolution-possible-first-time by @LingXin17 via @bioniclab.bsky.social; "world's first two-way adaptive brain-computer interface (BCI), boosting efficiency 100-fold"; #BCI #NeuroTech

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curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

it's super helpful for sensory substitution/augmenting tech too, to control dynamics of interweaving/abstraction regulation on the fly. (Although only tested via BT ring vs BCI reading brain waves)

Having control and embodiment over a sensory modality takes it even closer to "native" so to speak.

seeingwithsound.bsky.social•4 days ago

It will be difficult to clearly separate helpful abstractions (filtering out "irrelevant" or "distracting" detail) from censorship and interest bias. Remove the cluttered flower beds from the view of a visual prosthesis? Walking is not always about efficiently going from A to B.

curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

True, at least until people start better mapping, making tools by which to more fluidly navigate these abstracts - you are right, although we already modulate senses a bit, via (sun)glasses, headphones and such, depending on need of modality. Sometimes it's navigating, others, to look at flowers :)

curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

In this case, it's for modulating perceptual manifolds for task at hand - perhaps not as ideal as full sight, but via ability to tune for needs and have awareness/feedback of how the system changes, it enables more perspectives to be had into those abstracts, even if it will be messy, noisy at first

curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

In the case of the vOICe, this might manifest as the users having ability to swap to a colour mode, face mode, for certain use cases where outlines of intense areas aren't as ideal (if this already is done, apologies! The videos seen seem to show only spatial-relevant info). more nuanced, obviously.

seeingwithsound.bsky.social•4 days ago

The vOICe for Android app includes (interleaved) face detection and talking OCR, color filter and contrast options, and more, but ideally there would be no need for a UI for settings, much like our sighted eyes lack buttons https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe

seeingwithsound.bsky.social•4 days ago

About task-at-hand perceptual mode-switching for visual prostheses (including smart glasses) and highlighting of relevant (visual) information, see also https://techesoterica.com/smart-glasses-for-the-blind-missing-the-mark-in-5-ways-and-how-to-get-them-on-track/

curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

Swapping to specific objects detecting isn't as useful as allowing changing of intensity, distance of detection, and so on, whole manifold swaps are more task-oriented, I'd imagine.

curiosiate.bsky.social•4 days ago

Very good insights to keep in mind (especially wide FOV! So much nicer). When I say modes, it is more about that filtering mentioned, to let users self-determine their needs and what is relevant - such as someone with vision but no colour, could use the colour mode. Enabling access to primitives

seeingwithsound.bsky.social•4 days ago

A memristor-based adaptive neuromorphic decoder for brain–computer interfaces https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01340-2

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