Recently I got my Emotiv SDK with the wireless neuroheadset. It took several months till they were able to ship but finally it’s here – it works and it’s really fascinating.
I have tried all the demos and tools and partially succeed with neuro training. The basic neuro signal acquisition seem to work quit well but I struggle with the special training patterns in the cognitive suite. “The Cognitiv suite reads and interprets a player's conscious thoughts and intent. Gamers can manipulate virtual objects using only the power of their thought!”
The cognitive trainings has been quit intense and sometimes really frustrating as long as I was training in the control panel only. But when I linked up the neuro activity detection with e.g. Powerpoint to switch slides it immediately became a very concrete and reasonably control loop. It’s nice to control Powerpoint by emotion or at least by thought.
I hope Emotiv will release a 64 bit Version of the SDK which is compatible with Windows 7 soon. This is a really cool device which might get a lot more attention soon.