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Notion 2 — Train your mind and free your code
Notion 2 knows when you are in the zone and keeps you there. Our app finds the music that hacks your coding mood. Notion 2 connects with your Spotify account and selects the music that syncs with your brain and boosts your productivity.
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Chris Messina
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This seems to have a major advantage over Elon Musk's Neuralink: Neurosity wants to enable actions through brain waves. But you don’t have to implant a chip in your brain to begin controlling things.
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I first used Notion 1 in a packed coffee shop in San Francisco, it was their think to scroll demo and my mind was blown. By far, the best "brain computer" I've tried. Excited for Notion 2 and the haptic feedback! Keep up the good work, team!
I am really fascinated by neurotech and this updated headset looks pretty interesting. I have to admit though this use case seems very 'Silicon Valley on HBO'. What other applications are you pursuing for the hardware? Any tech specs or a dev API to inspect?
@tylerlastovich I used to not consistently get into the zone. I'd try to get work done, but if I was getting distracted more than I could work, I'd stop working and take a break. With this new music app we've built, I really no longer fear being able to jump into the zone and program or really do whatever I need to get done. This is the first BCI application I've used for up to four hours a day. The experience is exactly what I've always wanted out of a BCI.
If you jump over to our discord, you can see many of the projects developers are doing. We have a fully open-source API called Notion-JS which has documentation located at docs.neurosity.co People are building incredible software applications powered by Notion 2 and the Neurosity OS. Teach specs are located at neurosity.co/notion
Discord link: https://discord.gg/E4dvX6g
@andrewjaykeller Thanks, I have a much better understanding of what can do now after reading the API docs. Surprisingly straight forward, especially the training! The hard part to know from the outside is still how granular of predictions it can make. eg. can you train it sense 'right index finger' or does that roll up to 'right arm'? Regardless, cool stuff.
@e_b_rosner yes, it’s like your own personal DJ! Music that get’s you in the zone has a familiar (starts with playlists you love) but also new (music that is similar to playlist but also new to you) to get and keep you in the zone while programming!
A big "THANK YOU" to our growing Neurosity community.
We heard your feedback on Notion 1 and got to work. And now, we are pleased to announce we’ll be rolling out Notion 2 with four new features.
Dynamic Active Sensors - allow Notion 2 to adapt comfortably to your head while you jump into the zone. Notion 2 also includes brain signal boosting electronics above every sensor, so music to keep you focused is more accurate.
Vibrating Haptic Motors - produce subtle vibrations and gentle taps to communicate information to you, so we don’t interrupt your flow.
Battery Upgrades - 10% longer battery life, charges in just thirty minutes (50% faster), and uses USB-C so you spend more of your time programming.
Accelerometer - include physical activity data to increase the accuracy of your focus scores.
With these changes, we’re confident that sitting down at your computer, finding the zone, and staying there, will be easier than ever before.
@andrewjaykeller Couldn't you just design it in the form of a headphone instead? Dual purpose, less awkward/weird.
@pratikshadake_ind Two reasons we didn’t do that (for now at least). 1) Programmers listen to music in all different kinds of ways: studio speakers, headphones, earphones, AirPods, the only consistent thing we discovered with programmers is that most do listen to music - but each one is unique in their audio delivery choice. 2) We have to be really good at picking up on brain signals and creating experiences to help programmers jump in the zone faster, if we tried to integrate headphones, we’d have to be really good at audio too, which would take our eye off the ball of helping programmers reach their full potential using brain activity. Plus we allow programmers to not have to change how they listen to music, just put on notion and keep listening to music the way you already do!
@lucky_jeffman Declaring that "Nobody is going to [X]" has always been the most surefire way to make inaccurate technology predictions.
@lucky_jeffman No, but I am buying 1 unit, so you're wrong that nobody will want this. What device are you typing and reading this on right now? Because at one point in time, people said exactly what you're saying now about that device.
Cool - looks like it *ought* to fit on with headphones and, say, Nreal glasses for that all-in gargoyle experience. Is there any local data delivery, or is everything hoisted out to cloudland and then back down to a users (other) devices?
@murchadh we are cloud first. Notion 2 runs a linux operating system and real-time database with firebase. Any number of clients (computers, IoT devices, web browsers, and even other Notion 2s) can connect to a Notion 2. Using your user name and password is all it takes to authenticate a new application. We do also have a local mode for security conscious use cases which uses encrypted web sockets to bypass the cloud.
The ultimate solution is native apps tho, where the app code runs on device and directly connects to devices (like Nreal) using it's bluetooth/WiFi. We're rolling out native apps for Notion 2 by end of Q1 2021. We doubled Notion 2's on board memory to 8 GB, up from 4 Gb on Notion 1, specifically to support native apps.
How is it different from normal earphone?
I mean, when you listen to music through spotify, when you interact to it (i mean click heart button or follow button and so on),isnt it give you feedback through normal earphone that give the music that you want? i think with its( spotify ) powerful algorithm， it already has trained my mind lol (i'm not a coder by the way, i'm a product manager from China
@h_chou context is everything. We close the feedback loop automatically and constantly pick music that increases your focus. Spotify is great with tagging features, but we apply how your focus changes over time and tune the next selection with features that increase your focus scores. It feels like getting deeper into the zone as time goes on, consistently. The Notion 2 is as powerful as a MacBook Air - with its 1.8 GHz Quad Core processor.
@andrewjaykeller aha
so I think the difference between the two:
Notion free your two hands ( you dont have to click the button on the interface of ur PC/Mac),so that you can all focus on your code -- your mind help you to choose the music that suit you while coding ?