Participant founder and CEO of Valve Gabe Newell, the company behind half life and Dota 2 and anti- And Perematter Platform Platform Steam Steam, you have long played the idea that your mind should be more connected to your computer. He – she It started more than a decade ago With internal psychologists who study the biological responses of people for video games; The valve was once considered ear screens For its first VR headphone. The company publicly explored an idea Games computer interfaces In GDC in 2019.
But Newil decided to revolve around the idea. In the same year, It is quietly combined Starfish NeursiSI- which has now revealed plans to produce the first brain chip later this year.
The first blog post in StarfishI was monitored By valve watchers Brad LynchHe explains that we are not talking about a complete transplant. This bit is a dedicated “electrical physiology” slice designed to record brain activity (such as how Neuralink “can read your mind” so that patients can interact with computers) and stimulate the brain (to treat the disease), but Starfish does not claim to be really designed to operate or bit to install them in the person’s head.
We expect our first chips to arrive in late 2025 and We are interested in finding collaborators who will open such a new and exciting way“Starfish NeuroenGineer Nate Cermak (Bolding) is written, indicating that Starfish may end in partnership with other companies to obtain wireless power or even final brain transplantation.
But the goal, Starfish, writes, is a smaller and less invading competition, which can “enable simultaneous access to multiple brain areas” instead of only one location, a site that does not require a battery. Using only 1.1 milligors during “regular registration”, Starfish says it can work with wireless energy transfer instead.
Here is the current specifications paper for the chip:
Neuralink’s N1, for comparison, contains 1,024 pyramids across 64 whispers planted in the brain, A slice consumes about 6 milligors as of 2019The battery that periodically needs wireless charging, full planting (again, not only the slide) with a width of 23 mm and 8 mm thick. It is said that the company led by Elon Musk has already planted it in three human beings; While some of Topics did separation From the first patient’s brain, he still has functions and Interviews have been made.
Starfish says it may be important to contact multiple parts of the brain at one time, instead of only one area, to address issues such as Parkinson’s disease. “There is increasing evidence that a number of neurological disorders involve a functional defect at the circuit level, where interactions can be abused between the brain areas.”
In addition to many synchronous brain transplants, The updated website of the company says It works on the “precise heat device” to destroy the targeted heat tumors, the brain reading system, and the magnetic stimulus (TMS) directed in the Robbatian side to treat neurological conditions such as bilateral disorder and depression.
If you are wondering how any of this return to games, I will leave you with Valve’s talk from GDC 2019 about brain computer facades.
