Meta’s reality labs have published a colleague-review article that describes the company’s efforts to manufacture input tools that are non-invasive and surface depends on electromography (SEMG). The company is working on restband technology designed to enable human-computer interaction (HCI) using muscle signals. Meta states that the technique allows the wrist to pinch, tap, or swipe the user’s “intentions”, or swipe, or type, and navigate on the computer without using a keyboard or mouse.
How does Meta’s non-invasive restband technology works
A Peer-review article in journal Nature The company describes the experimental technique used by the company, depending on a wristband designed to identify nerve signals that control the user’s muscles and interpret them as an order to perform various tasks. These include typing or navigating through user interfaces, without using traditional input tools.
Meta’s SEMG Restband (tap to expand) supported gestures
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SEMG is non-invasive, and the company says that the wristband technology it has developed can help users with “diverse physical abilities and characteristics”. Meta also claims that by using personal data to technology, machine learning models can help offer 16 percent better accuracy.
A Demonstration video of technology The wrist-based one-dimensional cursor displays control when using wearable on Meta’s blog. It shows a person writing “Hello world” on a flat surface using its index finger, without any stylus or input tool. It also shows a gesture that moves a cursor, as well as recognizes some discrete tasks.
Development of Semag Restband of Meta (tap to expand)
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In the past, the meta is Open your dataset with recording For tasks such as surface typing, and researchers can now use a new dataset that contains SEMG data completing the three tasks recorded by 300 research participants. The company also says that the technology behind its restband can offer better performance as it is used for the use of a person.
The company has also highlighted that SEMG input can help people trembling to type or navigate the input touchscreen interface. Meta has also participated with educational institutions such as Carnegie Melon University, testing these techniques for persons with disabilities.
