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absolutely nothing creepy about this at all https://t.co/J4Vgjc8D8v
— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) September 24, 2019
Today we’re thrilled to share that Facebook has agreed to acquire CTRL-labs. Our team is excited to join @boztank and his group Facebook Reality Labs to empower people with non-invasive neural interfaces at scale. https://t.co/b5w8ks62Sj
— CTRL-labs (@CTRLlabsCo) September 23, 2019
We know there are more natural, intuitive ways to interact with devices. And we want to build them. It’s why we’ve agreed to acquire CTRL-labs. They will be joining our team where we hope to build this kind of tech at scale. More on the team and their tech https://t.co/kJgz6gl9nT
— Boz (@boztank) September 23, 2019
Big news from @CTRLlabsCo today! It has been a huge thrill to serve on the board of a company completely reimagining how we interact with technology. Huge congrats to Reardon, Patrick and the whole team. https://t.co/tpN9hC142W
— Erik Nordlander (@ejn) September 23, 2019
Facebook bought a brain-computer interface start-up.
— Waffle Woky (@wokyleeks) September 23, 2019
This can't be good.@thespybrief @gametheorytoday @ericgarland @MingGao26 https://t.co/UUrxUrzbWw
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind: BBG
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 23, 2019
Because typing is too exhausting and creates a lot of CO2
Lots of potential use cases for this: Imagine having AR glasses that you can then control hands-free. Or VR gaming. Or something medical-related? A long way off (probably) but interesting
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) September 23, 2019
Facebook buys start-up that received funding from Alphabet and Amazon. Who says there's no competition in tech? https://t.co/E2umuBDeor
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) September 23, 2019
Facebook has acquired @CTRLlabsCo, which makes EMG neural interfaces tracking finger movement through your arm muscles. Definitely a part of the future 3DUI & UX.
— Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) September 24, 2019
I featured them an interview I did at the @CIFAR_News Future of Neuroscience & VR workshop.https://t.co/tqDEo8ommy https://t.co/fCf36JNhOO
How augmented reality goes mainstream: low-key glasses controlled by an armband. Smart of Fb to acquire Ctrl-Labs that owns Myo https://t.co/HfSoxCq1V1
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) September 24, 2019
JUST IN: Facebook has agreed to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup that is building software to let people control a digital avatar using only their thoughts, at a cost of between $500 million and $1 billion https://t.co/W4DcsptqMB pic.twitter.com/lQDz6TqDis
— Bloomberg (@business) September 23, 2019
Congrats to @jduyan, Reardon, and the @CTRLlabsCo team on their exit to @facebook! CTRL is building a future where devices will operate as a natural extension of movement & control happens "using an imperceptible movement or just by, well, intending to."https://t.co/c3JM5JtgC6 https://t.co/djpoUhQOtK
— Sutian Dong (@sutiandong) September 23, 2019
The whole sci-fi idea about connecting humans to computers that @elonmusk has been working on is closer than we think. $FB is latest news to show the tech minds see this as the future. Elon’s @neuralink plans to conduct human tests next year. Look out! https://t.co/wuzU1VpzWD
— Chad Shoop, CMT (@ChadShoopGuru) September 23, 2019
Just a truly exciting, mind-bending company. It has been a privilege to have been along for this early part of the ride in a small way. Savvy move, @facebook ?✋?? /cc @gvteam https://t.co/QYBUApk07a
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) September 23, 2019
Truly LOVE, LOVE these founders—
— Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) September 23, 2019
what a thrill to get to sit on Board with Reardon + Patrick & entire @CTRLlabsCo team—
a front seat to INCREDIBLE science, incredible engineering making real a toally CREDIBLE future for us all ??? https://t.co/hoXmk0RHrF
I tested a CTRL Labs wristband prototype ~2 weeks ago. Could do some nifty tracking of hand position, gestures, finger motion, etc... But some tests were finicky and still a bulky form factor
— Ryan Duffy (@RyanfDuffy) September 24, 2019
Surely the R&D / hardware shrinking will accelerate now https://t.co/nXYasMniD5
As someone with wrist pain from too much phone and mouse, I personally welcome Facebook to read my spinal cues and activate the device without moving my hand. https://t.co/zlTeQ9FMJ1
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) September 24, 2019
Oh. Look at that. Facebook’s newest venture: harvesting thoughts https://t.co/3WOMRmIVT6
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) September 24, 2019
Antitrust? What antitrust?https://t.co/0cn504ol5W
— James Wang (@jwangARK) September 23, 2019
It's a FUCK NO FACEBOOK from me. https://t.co/JjHKKN49j8 pic.twitter.com/lz0VGEhyHI
— Erin Biba (@erinbiba) September 24, 2019
So much to unpack:
— BlueLantern ? 정 해 선 (@BlueLantern92) September 23, 2019
1. Last I heard CTRL-Labs only had an armband that interpreted electrical impulses on muscle.
2. Also they weren’t into “Brain implants” due to noise in brain activity. How do they harness “thought”?
3. How did they come up $500 MM -$1B as the cost? ? https://t.co/CSJt1WaldX
If you’re human, you don’t want @Boztank or anyone remotely close to his operation near your neurons. Trust me. The case is clear. https://t.co/mzW7wX3fGT
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 24, 2019
facebook doing any acquisitions, let alone billion-dollar ones, at this moment, seems... bold! https://t.co/M2rWN6O9Zw
— Erin Griffith (@eringriffith) September 23, 2019
Profitability = Optionality and the inverse is even more true.
— Dmitry Shevelenko (@dmitry140) September 24, 2019
CTRL-Labs has years of losses ahead of it, and with a looming recession, not betting on endless ability to fundraise is the responsible choice, but unlikely the outcome the founders dreamed of. https://t.co/IA8pu4fUBZ
CNBC visited CTRL Labs last summer -- not at all surprised the company got snapped up. A new frontier for human computer interaction. https://t.co/JH9Hdyyr9U https://t.co/mVvtFxUgSS
— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) September 23, 2019
“It captures your intention so you can share a photo with a friend using an imperceptible movement or just by, well, intending to.”
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) September 23, 2019
This sounds like tech that hasn't found a worthwhile application (or it has, but FB isn't disclosing it)https://t.co/XBFwxyek1p
That sucking sound you hear is Facebook ingesting the brilliant Ctrl-Labs. Great for them, disappointing for the rest of us. Facebook needs to inveigle itself into our lives less, not more. https://t.co/OMuQASr50P
— Azeem Azhar (@azeem) September 24, 2019
Absolutely not. (via @mashable) https://t.co/k7JpumxCqU
— IPVanish (@IPVanish) September 24, 2019
Facebook wants to build a mind-reading wristband https://t.co/MFZFfCXe2a
— neuroprivacy (@neuroprivacy) September 24, 2019
#Facebook wants to make a wristband that reads your mind – what could go wrong? https://t.co/JfE36ArN1e #privacy #dataprivacy #cybersecurity via @mashable
— Video Forensics (@Video_Forensics) September 24, 2019
Upload VR Facebook Acquires Startup Developing AI Finger Tracking Armband: Facebook is in the final stages of acquiring a New York based startup called CTRL Labs which was developing an armband… https://t.co/lSOrTbNp5q #Facebook #CTRLlabs #facebook #topstories Via @UploadVR pic.twitter.com/buYRJf3ULv
— Bradley Jon Eaglefeather (@bjeaglefeather) September 24, 2019
Explained to my 9-year-old the finger tracking wristband Facebook is buying. She’s familiar with VR controllers like Valve Index and Oculus Touch controllers. “Just a wristband?” she asks. “I want it!”https://t.co/iRfLmfGy0K
— Ian Hamilton ? OC6 (@hmltn) September 24, 2019
Facebook buys brain tech start-up as it bets on a future of mind-reading computers https://t.co/WX4cIXAbz6 pic.twitter.com/W7Lkbd4NrT
— Ceylan Larousse (◡‿◡ ✿) (@ceylanlarus) September 24, 2019
Catch-up: #Facebook has acquired CTRL Labs, a start-up that builds mind-reading computer interfaces, for a reported $1bn https://t.co/Ah6XBaf9l0
— Telegraph Technology Intelligence (@TelegraphTech) September 24, 2019
It's a wristband that decodes neural signals from your spinal chord ?
— Gonz (@FaceLikeTheSun) September 24, 2019
"Facebook today announced that it is acquiring CTRL-labs, a New York-based startup developing technology that would allow humans to control computers using their brains."https://t.co/wuAFbYyqrC pic.twitter.com/um5iqpsy08
Is there a more dystopian headline than “Facebook acquires startup developing mind control computing technology”? We may as well all shrug and voluntarily move into our Matrix “pods”! @FrankPasquale @amatwyshyn @juliapowles https://t.co/G9K99Q8kLC
— Nicolas Terry (@nicolasterry) September 24, 2019
Facebook buys CTRL-labs to let you control devices with your brain. Just sayin’. https://t.co/ab8gwwvACx
— Steven Levy (@StevenLevy) September 23, 2019
Oh good! Just what we needed — an even more invasive way for Facebook to deliver its particular brand of Surveillance Capitalism to users. Facebook's Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users' Heads—Literally https://t.co/v73kz0zYSx
— Julia Kaganskiy (@juliaxgulia) September 24, 2019
Also fitting to see @StevenLevy bring a bookend today (https://t.co/yQP4fRvZOu) to this part of the story of @CTRLlabsCo, since his original profile (https://t.co/RCwZYCgQp3) was the kicking off point for our initial investment memo... pic.twitter.com/Q4LIowuZRS
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) September 24, 2019
CTRL-Labsは「脳とコンピュータを直接接続する技術（Brain Computer Interface、BCI）」を目指して2017年に設立した会社。Oculus のコントロール装置としても可能性は高いと思う。https://t.co/jEmtxicO9i
— Sangmin @ChoimiraiSchool (@gijigae) September 24, 2019
Congratulations @CTRLlabsCo and @boztank — you are bringing together a team of people that can take computing input and touch to the next level. And @StevenLevy great headline, but that’s not quite how it works ????https://t.co/SzJfuiwRCh
— Georg Petschnigg (@georgpetschnigg) September 23, 2019
FB acquires CTRL-labs for a reported $500M-$1B.
— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) September 23, 2019
Interestingly, Alphabet (GV) and Amazon (Alexa Fund) were both investors in the company.https://t.co/hdmu64ABbR
$FB agrees to acquire brain-computing start-up CTRL-labshttps://t.co/QbkZO4M8lw https://t.co/7egzs5EFIO
— Jerry Capital (@JerryCap) September 23, 2019
Facebook acquires company backed by Google and Amazon https://t.co/lWWZ9P9WpS
— Ari Levy (@levynews) September 23, 2019
BREAKING: Facebook announces acquisition of brain-computing start-up CTRL-labs; source tells CNBC deal is for approximately $1 billion https://t.co/5LeKgujBvu
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) September 23, 2019
Wow congrats @wolfejosh and @Lux_Capital https://t.co/AvZ2j4QIRL
— Bijan Salehizadeh (@bijans) September 24, 2019
Facebook buys start-up that received funding from Alphabet and Amazon. Who says there's no competition in tech? https://t.co/E2umuBDeor
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) September 23, 2019
?Facebook acquires CRTL-labs, a brain-computing start-up https://t.co/8tNKxQdpUS
— Venture Capital (@kelly2277) September 24, 2019
Facebook announces acquisition of brain-computing start-up CTRL-labs#WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? https://t.co/Z5Y0tMaAkx
— Doriano Carta (@Paisano) September 24, 2019
WHOA. WOW.
— Graeme Moffat (@graemedmoffat) September 24, 2019
Way to go @SequencedC @abarachant @dzwetmore and team.https://t.co/miFDmBmp3k
#Facebook agrees to acquire neural interface control start-up, @CTRLlabsCo - https://t.co/vPXU8X2vpb #transhumanism pic.twitter.com/L5odnhymmS
— Nik Hewitt (@nikhewitt) September 24, 2019
Yes, absolutely I think $FB should have access to the data coming off a wristband that decodes "electrical signals to your hand muscles telling them to move in specific ways."
— Fatemeh Khatibloo. Rage-scrolling™ champion. (@fatemehx2) September 23, 2019
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?https://t.co/cR4liK9AnF
Antitrust? What antitrust?https://t.co/0cn504ol5W
— James Wang (@jwangARK) September 23, 2019
NEW: Facebook says it has acquired CTRL-Labs, a startup w/ technology that lets people control a digital avatar with only their thoughts. Acquisition price: Between $500M and $1B, sources say, which is broad but a significant amount of $$ regardless https://t.co/gu0MLuIH1L
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) September 23, 2019
Lord help us...
— Will Lehr (@thewilliamlehr) September 23, 2019
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind https://t.co/q2Gm9a4UIw
I have high confidence that Facebook's reasons for purchasing a brain-computer interface startup are 100% ethical. https://t.co/7kOY7uJnls
— Casey Brant (@BaseCase) September 24, 2019
? Huge congratulations to @CTRLlabsCo on this exciting new development! ?https://t.co/GWm1tRrwYH
— Spark Capital (@sparkcapital) September 24, 2019
#notcreepyatall >>
— John Koetsier (@johnkoetsier) September 24, 2019
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind https://t.co/g3WYwXLr9e via @technology#facebook
Random Tweet as it struck me as ironic: The US Gov can’t even figure out/regulate $FB for a long list of privacy abuses. Now This ?
— Samantha LaDuc (@SamanthaLaDuc) September 24, 2019
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind https://t.co/o4UNFrzV0D
Facebook is acquiring CTRL-Labs, a startup that wants to allow humans to control digital avatars with their minds. The size of the deal is reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion. https://t.co/ka08Vo3suR
— Shubhra D (@ShubhraDalakoti) September 24, 2019
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind (oh good)
— Kek_Magician (@Keque_Mage) September 24, 2019
CTRL-Labs
$500m-$1bhttps://t.co/BHruHD7VNf
Facebook, 마음으로 컴퓨터 제어를 위한 스타트 업 매수 https://t.co/vJ1JH49YwD
— editoy (@editoy) September 25, 2019
• "척추에는 뉴런이 있어 전기 신호를 손 근육에 전달하여 마우스를 클릭하거나 버튼을 누르는 것과 같은 특정 방식으로 움직이도록 지시합니다."라고 그는 페이스북 게시물에 썼습니다.
"Facebook has acquired a start-up which is developing devices that can pick up electrical signals from the brain and transmit them to a computer."
— Boring AI Now! (@Boring_AI) September 25, 2019
Facebook is doubling down on their belief that people really don't care about privacy. #deletefacebookhttps://t.co/Opz0OtRLqM
BBC News - Facebook buys 'mind-reading wristband' firm CTRL-Labs @CTRLlabsCo https://t.co/Kj61xg4QT9
— Om Prakash (@baizalla) September 24, 2019
https://t.co/zCL7MisAsO 이거일수도있겟습니다.
— Pyu_ru @VRChat (@Pyu_ru) September 25, 2019
#HumanMind reading #Computer #Startup acquired by #FB @kashthefuturist @alvinfoo @DioFavatas @gvalan @DrFerdowsi @junjudapi @enricomolinari @TheCloudand_Me @JGrobicki @fogle_shane @JolaBurnett @avrohomg @dak970 @fklivestolearn @ipfconline1 https://t.co/nWWXBXFril
— Shad (@ShadRaza1) September 25, 2019
Selling a company that allows access to your brain—to one that cannot protect its users’ data.
— Tommaso Valletti (@TomValletti) September 24, 2019
Facebook's Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users' Heads—Literally https://t.co/5eoKvGbBeN
And here I thought the “Facebook camera in your living room” was nuts. Now Facebook is going to try and convince people to let them read their thoughts?
— blair (@blairmacintyre) September 24, 2019
???????? https://t.co/FrY8XUkzX5
Facebook agrees to acquire brain-computing start-up CTRL-labs https://t.co/yFSmcJESI2 #ds #datascience
— Richard Eudes, PhD (@RichardEudes) September 25, 2019
[Russian mob connected] Facebook on Monday announced the acquisition of CTRL-labs, a New York startup that specializes in allowing humans to control computers using their brains. https://t.co/ZKIX5sWbMo
— John Bernstein (@bernstein1985) September 24, 2019
Facebook agrees to acquire brain-computing start-up CTRL-labshttps://t.co/Wnm1l3hCnB
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) September 25, 2019
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind https://t.co/PeP0qsUTzA
— CarrieAnne? (@SassyTallBlonde) September 25, 2019
What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/g5KVYiTywO
— Frank Sobotka (@space_geronimo) September 25, 2019
A year ago we started making Mind control based interfaces for VR experiences. @facebook just announced for $1B it will Buy Startup for same thing! While it’s not us, it’s still great to see this interest & investment #eeg
— ???? ??????, ???reality ?PaxWest ? (@jeffrayner) September 25, 2019
@Bloomberg https://t.co/eMWxaiXXrL
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind https://t.co/4joh2pLCAs via @technology
— Sam Beder (@skbeder) September 24, 2019
페이스북이, 생각만으로 컴퓨터를 조작할 수 있는 기술을 개발 중인 신생업체 CTRL-Labs를 인수한다는 뉴스 https://t.co/yemHzLIFjh 인수가는 5억 달러에서 10억 달러 사이로 추측된다고...
— H. Kim (@metavital) September 24, 2019
#WorthReading Facebook Just Coughed Up Close to $1 Billion for a Company That Makes Brain-Reading Wristbands https://t.co/Ptdty0eAeC
— Paul Brody (@pbrody) September 25, 2019
Facebook Just Coughed Up Close to $1 Billion for a Company That Makes Brain-Reading Wristbands https://t.co/PWshc5bTOL
— Evan Kirstel at #Globalsummit19 (@evankirstel) September 25, 2019