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AppliedVR raises $29M to help make virtual reality the standard of care for treating chronic pain

March 24, 2021 by SharpBrains

Applied­VR Rais­es $29 Mil­lion for Immer­sive Head­sets (LA Busi­ness Journal):

Cen­tu­ry City-based Applied­VR, Inc. announced March 23 that it has raised $29 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing that will be used to con­tin­ue devel­op­ment of an immer­sive head­set to help patients with chron­ic pain. [Read more…] about Applied­VR rais­es $29M to help make vir­tu­al real­i­ty the stan­dard of care for treat­ing chron­ic pain

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AppliedVR, chronic pain, cognitive behavioral therapies, FDA, fibromyalgia, headset, mindfulness exercises, pain treatment, virtual-reality

Neuromodulation developer Halo Neuroscience closes its doors; Flow Neuroscience acquires assets

February 19, 2021 by SharpBrains

Flow acquires brain stim­u­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­er Halo (Med­ical Device Network):

Flow Neu­ro­science has acquired the assets of brain stim­u­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­er Halo Neu­ro­science to advance its research into depres­sion and oth­er men­tal health dis­or­der treat­ments. [Read more…] about Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion devel­op­er Halo Neu­ro­science clos­es its doors; Flow Neu­ro­science acquires assets

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain stimulation, depression, Flow Neuroscience, Halo Neuroscience, headset, neuromodulation, neuroscience, tDCS, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation

Halo Neuroscience raises $13M to further develop and commercialize neuromodulation headset aimed at inducing “hyperplasticity”

February 2, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13m in Series B (Mass Device):

“Neu­rostim­u­la­tion device mak­er Halo Neu­ro­science said today it raised $13 mil­lion in a Series B round of financ­ing to sup­port its Halo Sport neu­rostim head­set designed to improve mus­cle mem­o­ry acqui­si­tion from ath­let­ic train­ing. [Read more…] about Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13M to fur­ther devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion head­set aimed at induc­ing “hyper­plas­tic­i­ty”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Halo Neuroscience, Halo Sport, headset, hyperplasticity, neuromodulation, neuropriming, neurostimulation

Want a music system that lifts you up when you’re feeling down? Meet this audio headset with bio-signal sensors (key neurotech patent #48)

May 18, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Today we are fea­tur­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent by Neu­roSky, cou­pling an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG sig­nal detection.

U.S. Patent No. 8,271,075: Audio head­set with bio-sig­nal sensors

  • Assignee(s): Neu­roSky, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Cheng‑I Chuang, KooHy­oung Lee
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG
  • Issue Date: Sep­tem­ber 18, 2012

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘075 patent cou­ples an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG sig­nal detec­tion by inte­grat­ing an EEG sen­sor (item 15 in the illus­tra­tive image) into the audio ear­piece to estab­lish a sens­ing head­set that is unlike­ly to cause dis­com­fort or oth­er­wise detract from the audio head­phone user’s expe­ri­ence. [Read more…] about Want a music sys­tem that lifts you up when you’re feel­ing down? Meet this audio head­set with bio-sig­nal sen­sors (key neu­rotech patent #48)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: audio headset, bio-signal sensors, brain data, brain signal detection, EEG, EEG signal detection, electroencephalography, headset, neuro-technology, NeuroSky, patent

Next: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) meet brain scanning and human enhancement

April 5, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Face­book, Apple and the Com­ing Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Land Grab (Vari­ety):

“Two new reports sug­gest that two of Sil­i­con Valley’s biggest com­pa­nies are secret­ly work­ing on aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. It may take some time before Apple is going to reveal its efforts in the space, but Face­book may give us a glance at its AR research as ear­ly as next month [Read more…] about Next: Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty (AR) and Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty (VR) meet brain scan­ning and human enhancement

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Apple, augmented reality, brain enhance­ment, brain scanning, Brain-health, Building 8, DARPA, Facebook, headset, HoloLens, Human Enhancement, Microsoft, neurotechnologies, virtual-reality

French neurotech start-up Rythm raises $11m to help improve sleep quality

March 31, 2016 by SharpBrains

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Rythm rais­es $11M to pur­sue sleep-improv­ing neu­rotech­nol­o­gy (TechCrunch):

“French start­up Rythm, which makes a tech-infused head­set it claims improves sleep qual­i­ty, announced Tues­day that it’s raised over $11 mil­lion from pri­vate investors and pub­lic grants [Read more…] about French neu­rotech start-up Rythm rais­es $11m to help improve sleep quality

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Cognitive-functions, Dreem, headset, memory, neurotech, Rythm, sleep, sleep quality

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