Mind-reading headset allowing people to control computers with their thoughts described in Microsoft patent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The document describes a headset capable of “changing the state of an application by detecting neurological user intent data”. The patent application describes the company’s vision as: “Computer systems, methods, and storage media for changing the state of an application by detecting neurological user intent data associated with a particular operation of a particular application state, and changing the application state so as to enable execution of the particular operation as intended by the user. open image in gallery “The application state is automatically changed to align with the intended operation, as determined by received neurological user intent data, so that the intended operation is performed.” It adds: “In some circumstances neurological user intention data corresponding to a physical gesture is generated when a user thinks about and/or focuses on a movement in the same way an amputee might think about moving an amputated limb”. “Operations may include object move operations, build operations, edit operations, animation or actuation operations, data input or output operations, display operations, audio operations, character/object movement or control operations, menu operations, navigation operations, processing operations, or other operations performable within the application to modulate input or output, settings, responses, and the like,” the patent application, which was submitted in May 2016, explains.