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Beyond bulky VR headsets: Voice recognition, eye tracking, and natural gestures in the era of the metaverse and the “Medi-verse”

March 21, 2023 by Dr. Cori Lathan Leave a Comment

Imag­ine you have moved to a new city and bought a con­do adver­tised as “meta­verse enabled.” Upon clos­ing, along with the phys­i­cal keys to your con­do, you receive a unique cryp­to­graph­ic key to the com­mu­ni­ty. You move into your neigh­bor­hood both phys­i­cal­ly and dig­i­tal­ly. With the cryp­to key, you link your own per­son­al meta­verse pro­file to the con­do. This merges your per­son­al meta­verse, includ­ing a dig­i­tal cat­a­log of all the objects in your home, to a dig­i­tal map of the new space inte­grat­ing all the sen­sors and devices that con­trol the objects through the meta­verse. [Read more…] about Beyond bulky VR head­sets: Voice recog­ni­tion, eye track­ing, and nat­ur­al ges­tures in the era of the meta­verse and the “Medi-verse”

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, AR display, eye-tracking, healthcare delivery, Medi-verse, metaverse, personal metaverse, spatial computing, stress relief, voice recognition, wearables

Taking your brain vitals: Stories from a techno-optimist inventing the future of human performance

October 11, 2022 by Dr. Cori Lathan

Dr. Cori Lath­an, author of Invent­ing the Future: Sto­ries from a Techno-Optimist

For as long as I can remem­ber, my father loved act­ing. Into his six­ties and ear­ly sev­en­ties, he was quite active in the the­ater. He played Tartuffe in Molière’s Tartuffe, Nick Bot­tom in Shakespeare’s A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream, and the Old Man in Steve Martin’s Picas­so at the Lapin Agile. When he won the role of Scrooge in a local pro­duc­tion of Dickens’s A Christ­mas Car­ol, I was so excit­ed for him that I bought tick­ets way before open­ing night. But he was hav­ing trou­ble remem­ber­ing his lines. Even­tu­al­ly, the direc­tor had to let him go.

To find out what was going on, my mom and dad went to his pri­ma­ry care physi­cian, who referred him to a neu­rol­o­gist. After wait­ing a month for that appoint­ment, the neu­rol­o­gist told Dad to see a neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist, who was booked anoth­er three months out. When that appoint­ment arrived, the neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist gave him a vari­ety of cog­ni­tive tests, includ­ing writ­ten, ver­bal, and com­put­er based. After anoth­er month, the neu­rol­o­gist called us back in and told my father, “You have mild cog­ni­tive impairment.”

“No shit, Sher­lock,” I thought. “That’s why we went to see his doc­tor six months ago.” The neu­rol­o­gist then dis­cussed my father’s oth­er health issues with us, which includ­ed car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, sleep apnea, type 2 dia­betes, and by that point, depres­sion. I then had an inspi­ra­tion. “Dad, when was the last time you used your CPAP machine?” He admit­ted sheep­ish­ly, “I don’t use it. I don’t like it.” [Read more…] about Tak­ing your brain vitals: Sto­ries from a tech­no-opti­mist invent­ing the future of human performance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, brain health, cognition, cognitive changes, Cognitive-tests, concussions, Dana, dementia-diagnosis, detect cognitive changes, mild-cognitive-impairment, neurologist, neuropsychologist, physician, theater, vital sign

Next: FDA-cleared mobile brain monitoring tools to detect cognitive impairment

March 25, 2015 by SharpBrains

neuronetrix

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FDA Has Cleared New Cog­ni­tive Screen­ing Tests (Alz­fo­rum):

“The Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion recent­ly cleared, mean­ing it deemed safe, two tests that may help doc­tors screen for cog­ni­tive decline. One is the so-called Cog­ni­sion sys­tem from Neu­ronetrix, a com­pa­ny based in [Read more…] about Next: FDA-cleared mobile brain mon­i­tor­ing tools to detect cog­ni­tive impairment

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, Cognision, cognitive-assessment, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-impairment, cognitive-screening, EEG, electroencephalography, Food and Drug Administration, Medicare, neurobehavioral, Neuronetrix, Patient Affordable Care Act, wellness visit

Recognition grows for digital brain health innovation

March 5, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Anthro­Tron­ix Named Edi­son Awards Final­ist for Brain Health Assess­ment Tool (press release):

“Anthro­Tron­ix, an engi­neer­ing research and devel­op­ment firm com­mit­ted to opti­miz­ing the inter­ac­tion between peo­ple and tech­nol­o­gy, announced today it has been named a 2015 Award Final­ist by the inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned Edi­son Awards™ for the company’s mobile [Read more…] about Recog­ni­tion grows for dig­i­tal brain health innovation

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, baseline, Brain-health, Dana, digital health, Edison Awards, mobile medical application

Expanding the brain health toolkit with mobile neurobehavioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?

January 6, 2015 by SharpBrains

thermometersArmy touts ‘brain ther­mome­ter’ as front-line tool (Army Times):

“Army medics will soon use what’s been dubbed a “brain ther­mome­ter”: a mobile phone appli­ca­tion that can, with­in min­utes, pro­vide health pro­fes­sion­als data to help diag­nose and mea­sure a sol­dier’s injuries…

The Defense Auto­mat­ed Neu­robe­hav­ioral Assess­ment, pro­duced by Anthro­Tron­ix, includes [Read more…] about Expand­ing the brain health toolk­it with mobile neu­robe­hav­ioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, Army, brain thermometer, concussion evaluation, Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment, mobile health, neurobehavioral assessment, neurocognitive, neurocognitive-tests, psychological survey, Traumatic-Brain-Injury

Top 14 Brain Fitness News in 2014: Research, Assessments and Training

December 18, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

BrainFitnessTrajectoryUnless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the grow­ing inter­est in–and con­tro­ver­sies around–the top­ics of brain fit­ness and brain training.

A lit­tle per­spec­tive may help sep­a­rate the sig­nal from the noise. Take a minute to think about the ear­ly years of the phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment. It took decades of con­flict­ing research and con­fus­ing media cov­er­age to final­ly spread the idea that dai­ly life activ­i­ties are far from suf­fi­cient to keep us phys­i­cal­ly fit. And, at the same time, to [Read more…] about Top 14 Brain Fit­ness News in 2014: Research, Assess­ments and Training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, AnthroTronix, Bay­crest, brain health assessment, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, Brain-Training, fit-brains, Gaiam, Interaxon, Lifestyle Medicine, neurocognitive, neurocognitive plasticity, Reebok, Rosetta Stone, Thync, UCSF

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