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LooxidLink
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OpenBCI Ganglion
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EMOTIV Insight 2.0
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LooxidLink
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OpenBCI Ganglion
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EMOTIV Insight 2.0
Price (USD)
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LooxidLink
0.0$
OpenBCI Ganglion
0$
EMOTIV Insight 2.0
Lowest price
LooxidLink
Looxid Labs
beta
- Sensors
- EEG
- XR platforms
- Meta QuestVive
- Sampling rate
- 500 Hz
- Wireless
- USB-C to headset / BLE
- SDK
- LooxidLink SDK (Unity); LSL
- Raw data access
- raw EEG via SDK
- Subscription required
- No
- Best for
- attention/engagement in VR, frontal-asymmetry studies
- Limitations
- 6 frontal-ish channels; headset-fit dependent; limited availability
OpenBCI Ganglion
OpenBCI
shipping
- Sensors
- EEGEMG
- XR platforms
- —
- Sampling rate
- 200 Hz
- Wireless
- BLE (dongle sold separately)
- SDK
- GUI + BrainFlow
- Raw data access
- unrestricted (open)
- Subscription required
- No
- Best for
- low-cost neurofeedback, simple BCI, education
- Limitations
- 4 channels; no microSD; BLE compression
EMOTIV Insight 2.0
EMOTIV
shipping
- Sensors
- EEGIMU
- XR platforms
- —
- 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