Via the New Scientist:
You can now experience the world through someone else’s eyes by tapping into their brain activity. Jack Gallant and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley developed a technique that uses brain scans to reconstruct what a person is seeing. In the video above, it’s used to recreate film clips that a person is watching.
The team first measured brain activity produced while a person watched hours of movies. They used this data to create a model that can predict the neural activity that would be elicited by any given movie.
Then brain activity was recorded while a volunteer watched a new set of videos and the model was used to select the clips they were most likely viewing. Combining the model’s best guesses produced a blurry but reasonable approximation of the original clip.
No good will come of this.
“No son, you can’t go to the party.”
“But Dad, it’s just a few friends.”
“Well, I’ll let you go, as long as you wear the SeeingEye 5000 that uploads to my iPad7″
(sighing)”Well, alright.”
PS: RIP Steve Jobs.