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

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…

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Recognition grows for digital brain health innovation

. 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 

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

Army 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 

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

Unless 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…

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