so today I'll be unboxing the head Mouse 2 or the uh ocz Nia neural impulse
actuator plus I actually don't know much about this yet but I am about to
hopefully learn a little something about it now I do know about the original Nia
the original Nia used your basically your brain waves facial expressions eye
movements all that kind of stuff to translate into game control or just
general PC control cameraman also want want me to mention we have NC lanyards
coming soon these are pretty sweet I actually already grabbed one for myself
here so I have switched over my old lanyard to the new NCIX lanyard so why
don't we just have a look at what's on the back of the box here and it looks
like they say pretty much what I already said so you can concentrate that uh turn
it into keyboard and mouse controls new levels of gaming not previously possible
they tout it as a way to um heighten the response time for intense games so you
can have a thought faster than you can have a thought and then press a button
is the theory okay uh they say it doesn't take a whole lot of time I've
never actually used uh the original Nia uh or this one yet but I will take some
time to use this thing and see what I think of it um honestly the whole thing
sounded like a gimmick to me and when they said well we'll send you one I said
okay well we'll see how it goes so I'm going to try it out and I'm going to
approach this with an open mind because
you know what I've been surprised by stranger things being better than I
thought in the past so here we are it comes out of its little sleeve and then
it's a white box which comes open somehow there we are oh that's actually
a pretty nice presentation look at that okay so there's a piece of paper inside
please read okay thank you for particip
oh this is probably not for uh this is probably not for end users pre-release
version of the so something something something updated biometric scan sweet
there's a bunch of new software that's uh going with the Nia plus uh rather
than the old Nia so that's pretty good and then hopefully I'll be able to give
you a lot more details on this uh once I
have a chance to go through this thing and actually test it so why don't we
have a look at the included stuff in the Box first we have the Mia unit
itself okay so this is kind of a brushed aluminum thing it's got some dust on it
but no big deal it has kind of um like a
curvy shape to it very Space Age looking
I suppose it's uses a USB interface and that looks like a reset switch in the
back here uh let's go around to the front that is the n link so I'm assuming
that's how it plugs into the headband and then up on the top we've got our Nia
branding again little brushed aluminum box it's quite heavy actually so there's
got to be something inside there there's your ocz branding on the top there's my
serial number the warranty is void if you remove that or that all right so
there's the Nia unit itself and here is
the headband it's quite flexible now they say it's one size fits all but I
guess that remains to be seen and I'm going to wait to put that on so I'm
going to show you the other accessories first oh this is just a USB cable and
this is the Nia software pre-release version so it's on just a CD with a
paper printed thing on it so I'm guessing the retail one will come with a
proper CD oh this is cool this looks like little tentacles coming out of the
back of your head so it's like this thing is like an alien or something so
hold on there's got to be instructions or something here here here here okay
bear bear with me cuz I'm going to try and figure out how to wear the headband
if you are a beginner do this do
that no nothing they actually do not
tell you how to put it on so it must be
really easy then it must just be a matter of just putting it on this thing
looks really weird actually it's kind of a here let's just like look at the unit
itself so it's got kind of a rubbery to it okay and it's quite soft and sort of
spongy feeling there's uh okay there's
two oh here here this may be like pre-release Hardware so might not be the
actual fit and finish of it but basically there's a cord going in there
in fact I can pretty much guarantee that's not finalized fit and finish but
hopefully it has all the functionality and then that ends in your little end
link there so that'll come out this way
and then and here are the little uh pads that make contact with your head so
that's what reads your your brain waves and uh translates that into something
that your computer can understand and then yeah so why don't we go ahead and
put this on so it has to make direct contact with your skin in all likelihood
uh okay you just press this little button here and you pull the tentacles out in order to uh expand the headband
apparently I have a larger head than anyone at ocz was expecting okay and it
goes on just like that and the cameraman's got a
big old smile on his face he thinks this is funny yeah well laugh it up maybe
you'll be trying the Nia next cameraman okay thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the ocz Nia plus head mouse
or like head crab it's a head something anyway yes that's it thank you for
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