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LooxidLink
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PiEEG XR
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Varjo XR-4
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LooxidLink
Best in group
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PiEEG XR
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Varjo XR-4
Price (USD)
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LooxidLink
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PiEEG XR
0$
Varjo XR-4
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
beta
- Sensors
- EEGface-EMGEOG
- XR platforms
- Meta Quest
- Sampling rate
- 250 Hz
- Wireless
- SPI to Raspberry Pi / USB
- SDK
- open PiEEG stack (Python); LSL
- Raw data access
- unrestricted (open)
- Subscription required
- No
- Best for
- students, makers, low-budget BCI+VR experiments
- Limitations
- beta; requires a Raspberry Pi; DIY assembly; forehead montage
Varjo XR-4
Varjo
shipping
- Sensors
- eye-trackingpupillometryIMU
- XR platforms
- standaloneVarjo
- Sampling rate
- 200 (eye tracking) Hz
- Wireless
- tethered (DisplayPort/USB-C)
- SDK
- Varjo SDK; OpenXR; eye-tracking API
- Raw data access
- eye/gaze data via SDK
- Subscription required
- Yessome enterprise features need a Varjo subscription
- Best for
- high-fidelity MR, the hardware base Galea builds on, gaze research
- Limitations
- no neural sensing itself; tethered; enterprise pricing