Welcome to some of the hallmarks and interesting times (weird
and sane)
Isn't it cute!
It's the IBVA back in 1972.
Back then you controlled LED's and VU meters and funny analog waves!
Come on! Give us some applause! We still made it all fit in a suitcase folks!
There were a ton of early IBVA designs
All of them groovy!
The IBVA is hammered, kicked around, beaten horribly, dropped,
tortured electronically and even insulted until every last bug and bad design element was
forced out of town. Leaving the rock solid design and manufacturing process that has
earned us
our 100% zero failure rate among our users. Yes!
Before there was a single MIDI instrument made in the world,
IBVA was compatible from the first MIDI specification hammered out
(MIDI is the language of electronic music control)
When lazerdisc players were lab prototypes, IBVA was controlling them.
(note the little robot to the right of the TV screen, we controlled that too)
A later brain controlled robot.
It's so cute!
The Step 1 interface!
Hang it in a museum!
That's classic computer history!
The first brainwave controlled computer images in 1984!
We offered the worlds first brainwave controlled videogame
joystick!
Which could also be mixed with our VR Helmet!
Or mixed with muscle control to put real "punch" into the game.
(get it? punch! funny!)
IBVA at the 1991 MacWorld show
We offered the worlds first Virtual Reality Brainwave Tracking
headset!
Come on now! How cool is that!
Billy Idol proves his stuff on IBVA!
France TV does a show on us in 1992!
Ahh...the worlds first Silicon Graphics 6 degrees of freedom
software!
Programmed by Academy Award winning programmer Bill Bishop! (all around nice
guy : )
Brainwave interactive virtual reality anyone?
Oh look, it's just the pioneer band YMO mixing down their 1993
album....VIA 2 CHANNEL IBVA SYSTEM!!!!
Besides their albums they have done the soundtracks of such films as "The Last
Emperor",
"Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", "The Sheltering Sky", "Little
Buddha" and more.
Man lifts weight that isn't there!
Artist Vox can do it with muscles or mind!
We asked Bobby Dylan,
We asked the Beetles,
We asked Timothy Leary,
He knew :)
Timothy Leary Dead?
We heard he's on the outside looking in now.
Look! It's the groovy group Deee-Lite!
They dig us and we dig them!
Hi Miss Lady Kier! (swoon!)
Worlds first brainwave system for home automation control.
Lock that door!
IBVA controls a hologram in 1992!
This was our MindReacher Pak.
Control switch adapted devices like this Tickle
Me™ doll
Make him laugh with your brain, even if you can't use your arms : )
We offered it as a free modification for people in need : )
Multimedia pioneer Jim Shure of BIGTWIN was an early supporter of IBVA
Here at IBVA we sometimes let our plants answer your e-mails!
Laurie Anderson AND Vincent John Vincent both slapped on the electrodes
and controlled
some trippy lazerdisc material at the Mondo 2000
Beyond 2000 party at the LimeLight club in Manhattan back in '92.
Do birds talk to plants? Can the plants understand what birds
are saying? Eduardo
Kac and Ikuo Nakamura were trying to determine the answer. They connected
an IBVA System
to a plant located in New York City. Then hooked up a speakerphone to a
bird cage containing a canary in Kentucky. During a long-distance phone call,
the plant's electrical patterns were converted to sound information which triggered
a musical synthesizer. The canary listened to the plant's sounds and then sang
a song, in response.
"We are surrounded by plants and can't survive without them," says
Nakamura. "They produce oxygen and food for people. However, we really don't
understand them. While scientists have proven plants move and sense light and
gravity, we don't know how or if plants feel or even think."
Nakamura, a self-described holographer, is also using IBVA to control three-dimensional
animated images.
You can see the plant / bird interaction here http://www.ekac.org/Essay.html
You can see the brain interactive holograms here http://www.hololab.com
Info on the super interesting work of Eduardo
Kac here http://www.ekac.org
Light/Sound tests on the brain with IBVA produce some amazing data!
IBVA clues in the world on digital video and game control!
Ola Pehrson is a Super
User of ours!
He used the IBVA to make a plant pick and trade stocks from the local stock
exchange in real time!
(and the plant actually did well with the stocks)
We salute him and project programmer Thomas Broome for making something in the
true spirit of IBVA!
We now all can see a future where plants will choose our stocks,
drive our cars, and do the shopping. (no laughing please, it could happen :
)
Those are giant screens folks.
The IBVA gets used in clubs from San Francisco to London!
We know how to party!
We offered the worlds first brainwave controlled infra-red
controller!
The ultimate couch potato accessory!!!!
The Ultimate!!!!
IBVA hits Siggraph, again!
The worlds first brainwave controlled furniture!
We did it with our MindOS system!
You could select the drawer then open and close it!
Great for fun or necessity!
At most expos, after a few people try the IBVA they hang around and
explain it to others waiting in line.
They get excited and help us out.
It's very cool.
A real live Princess from Austria gives us a visit and leaves us with a groovy royal letter of recommendation!
SGI's to the left! PC's to the right! Macs all over!
One of our secret underground labs.
Where people are chained to virtual headsets and surrounded in a circle of work.
Brains are uploaded and then transferred to young bodies to extend R&D time.
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IBVA Technologies, Inc.
so don't even think about it!