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EMOTIV Insight 2.0
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Wearable Sensing DSI-VR300
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OpenBCI Galea
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EMOTIV Insight 2.0
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Wearable Sensing DSI-VR300
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OpenBCI Galea
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EMOTIV Insight 2.0
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Wearable Sensing DSI-VR300
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OpenBCI Galea
EMOTIV Insight 2.0
EMOTIV
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- Sensors
- EEGIMU
- XR platforms
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- Sampling rate
- 128 Hz
- Wireless
- BLE 5 + 2.4GHz dongle
- SDK
- Cortex JSON/WebSocket
- Raw data access
- included (consumer entitlement)
- Subscription required
- NoNo extra API licence; EmotivPRO optional for advanced recording
- Best for
- portable BCI development, teaching, neurofeedback prototypes
- Limitations
- 5 fixed locations; 128 Hz ceiling; proprietary ecosystem
Wearable Sensing DSI-VR300
Wearable Sensing
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- Sensors
- EEG
- XR platforms
- Meta QuestVivestandalone
- Sampling rate
- 300 (600 optional) Hz
- Wireless
- Bluetooth; LSL/TCP
- SDK
- DSI API (C/C++, Python); Unity/Unreal
- Raw data access
- raw CSV/EDF + LSL/TCP
- Subscription required
- No
- Best for
- P300 / VEP / SSVEP experiments inside VR
- Limitations
- 7 task-specific posterior channels; quote-only pricing
OpenBCI Galea
OpenBCI
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- Sensors
- EEGEOGEMGPPGEDAeye-trackingpupillometry
- XR platforms
- Varjo
- Sampling rate
- up to 500 Hz
- Wireless
- Wi-Fi; LSL/UDP/OSC
- SDK
- C/C++ SDK + BrainFlow; Unity/Unreal
- Raw data access
- full multimodal
- Subscription required
- No
- Best for
- VR/AR neuroscience, HCI, synchronized EEG + eye tracking + face EMG + EDA
- Limitations
- very expensive; 10 EEG channels; tied to the Varjo ecosystem