Brain-Computer Interfacing and Virtual Reality

Abstract

Brain-computer interface (BCI) and virtual reality (VR) are natural companions. BCI provides a new interaction technique for controlling VR, and VR provides a rich feedback environment for BCI while retaining a controlled and safe environment. The combination of VR and BCI allows for providing participants with novel experiences that are impossible otherwise. Both fields still pose many technological challenges to scientists and engineers, but both are making rapid progress.