VIBRE was created in March 2017 by Raffaele Salvemini, Sara Piras and Stefano Stravato, Biomedical Engineers and colleagues at several projects they started together during the university years.

At the beginning VIBRE was designed to be a Neurorehabilitation system based on a mind-driven virtual reality environment for post stroke patients, an ambitious project that needed strong knowledge in many fields. For this reason the team was joined by Simone Cesarano, Physiotherapist specialized in neurological pathologies, and Luca Talevi, BCI Engineer, both with great experience in their own fields despite the very young age.

In the first year of activity the idea was refined and enriched until we understood that the real value of our project was not in the application itself, but in the technology at the base of it, that allowed to control anything we wanted just with thoughts.

At this point Marco Renzi joined the team, a Software Engineer that boosted our development. We renamed the rehabilitation project Armonia, currently in development in collaboration with a Spanish company and a German University, and created BrainArt, in order to make people understand that BCIs can actually be used by anyone in a lot of fields, even the most unexpected.

Lately we added “the missing piece” to our vision: in two years of BCI development we understood that, in most applications, the current non-invasive neurotechnologies are not good enough to create a well working product, because of the difficulty in extracting enough informations from the sole brain signal.

The solution is to integrate more pieces of informations by synchronizing signals coming from other sensor and devices, not specially worn in order to make the system work, but sensors you daily wear that already generate precious data, mostly unused, like a smartphone or a smartwatch.

In this way BCIs assume a new dimension: they become one node of a network made by all your Wearable and Smart Devices, strongly increasing their capabilities and usability in people’s daily activities.

VIBRE was created in March 2017 by Raffaele Salvemini, Sara Piras and Stefano Stravato, joined in the next year by Simone Cesarano, Luca Talevi and Marco Renzi.

At the beginning VIBRE was designed to be a Neurorehabilitation system based on a mind-driven virtual reality environment for post stroke patients, but in the first year of activity the idea was refined and enriched until we understood that the real value of our project was not in the application itself, but in the technology at the base of it, that allowed to control anything we wanted just with thoughts.

We renamed the rehabilitation project Armonia, currently in development in collaboration with a Spanish company and a German University, and created BrainArt, in order to make people understand that BCIs can actually be used by anyone in a lot of fields, even the most unexpected.

Lately we added “the missing piece” to our vision: in two years of BCI development we understood that, in most applications, the current non-invasive neurotechnologies are not good enough to create a well working product, because of the difficulty in extracting enough informations from the sole brain signal.

The solution is to integrate more pieces of informations by synchronizing signals coming from other sensor and devices, not specially worn in order to make the system work, but sensors you daily wear that already generate precious data, mostly unused, like a smartphone or a smartwatch.

In this way BCIs assume a new dimension: they become one node of a network made by all your Wearable and Smart Devices, strongly increasing their capabilities and usability in people’s daily activities.

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