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Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain?

 2 years ago
source link: https://www.wired.com/story/brain-computer-interfaces-digital-reality/
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Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain?

The idea of a synthetic experience uploaded to the mind has been a sci-fi fantasy forever. New brain-computer interfaces are making it nonfiction—very slowly.
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Photograph: Andria Lo

A young man in a gray flannel robe sits calmly at a table, in front of a featureless black box. He's wearing a cap that looks like it's made of gauze bandages. A bundle of wires snakes out of it, emerging from the back of his head. He's waiting for something.

A researcher in a white lab coat walks up to the table and stands silently for a moment. The man stares at the box. For a moment, nothing happens. Then the man blinks and appears slightly abashed. The researcher asks what happened.


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