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Re:Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adu... by kefka on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:55AM (#8478239)
Given my new position at my workplace, I now have access to all sorts of gadgets and tech stuff.

One thing I've been playing with is a EEG headset with Oculus Rift. My initial idea is to utilize brain patterns with Oculus content to increase certain emotions.

For example, when one is playing Doom 3, the monsters come out closer and scarier when you are already frightened. Or if you're bored, nothing happens to try to increase suspense.

Of course, this could easily be taken to the adult industry. The same feelings of heightened sexual arousal could be coupled with more intense visual stimulation.

Re:Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adu... by therobot24 on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:01AM (#8478433)
EEG is a mess of noise - it's easy to determine things like 'up', 'down', 'left', and 'right'. If you're really precise (user isn't moving very much and has one of those caps that uses electro-gel) you can infer activations of certain parts of the brain, however i don't know how correlated they'd be to non-strong emotions like boredom.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adu... by aangjie on Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:02AM (#8478434)
That sounds like some increbily cool work. I'd imagine you can/already use some backend algorithms used by these people. http://emotiv.com/. If you would be willing to mail me the company you work for.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adu... by cindygallop on Sunday October 19, 2014 @06:27PM (#8479863)
90% of the audience at any Oculus Rift presentation/demo are thinking 'Sex' :)