SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Neuroscientists behind the project called it "BrainNet", a "multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving".
In layman's terms, researchers from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University figured out a way to connect three brains (still attached to their human hosts!) and have the owners of said brains make collective choices together without speaking.
And they tested it by playing Tetris. Because of course they did.
The team used "electroencephalograms" (EEGs) to record electric impulses from two human brains and "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS) to deliver information to a third brain. The end result: an interface that allowed three human subjects to collaborate and solve Tetris problems using brain-to-brain communication.
The article doesn't say how much calibration they had to perform for each group of test subjects, to make sure they were isolating the correct signal from the senders' brains.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:49PM
You know, my money is actually on _less_ calibration than is required to get the correct signal from a senders brain using conventional audio/visual/body-language comms.
(20+ yrs and still trying to calibrate to one woman - telepathy would be easier, particularly as she thinks I already possess it)