OpenBCI Galea beta program
Galea: the bridge between XR and neurotechnology

Whether your team is exploring the future of immersive entertainment or on the verge of a scientific breakthrough, Galea combined with Varjo headsets gets you the tightly time-locked physiological data you need.

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OpenBCI Galea headset hardware
Introducing the Galea Beta Program

Galea is the cutting-edge hardware and software platform that revolutionizes the way you measure physiological and neurological activity. With its next-generation brain-computer interface technology and head-mounted displays, it is the world’s first device that can simultaneously measure heart rate, skin conductance, muscle activity, eye movements, and brain activity of a study participant during a virtual or mixed reality experience or simulation.

Join the Galea Beta Program and gain access to advanced neurotechnology capabilities for consumer technology, healthcare, research, training, gaming, and interactive media. Beta units include full integration with Varjo mixed reality and virtual reality headsets, plus robust SDKs with ready-to-use building blocks for accessing sensor data in Unity, Python, and other common development environments.

Galea multimodal sensor network
A look inside Galea

Watch OpenBCI founder Conor Russomano introduce Galea at the TED 2023 Conference in Vancouver.

Galea beta units come fully integrated into world-class Varjo headsets and include a cutting-edge multimodal sensor network based on nearly a decade of OpenBCI R&D. Its conductive-polymer active electrodes are the centerpiece of the world’s most comfortable dry EEG system.

Galea technical specifications
Hardware
Compatible headsets
Varjo XR-3, Varjo Aero, Varjo XR-3 Focal Edition
Scalp EEG
8× dry, soft-polymer, active electrodes · 250 Hz sampling
Galea facepad
EMG 4ch · EEG 2ch passive · EOG 2ch · EDA 1 forehead sensor · PPG 1 forehead sensor · 250 Hz
Eye tracking
Image-based, 200 Hz with sub-degree accuracy; 1-dot calibration for foveated rendering
Data transmission
WiFi
Power supply
2000 mAh USB rechargeable battery
Positional tracking
SteamVR 2.0 / 1.0 base stations
Software
Galea GUI
Data stream visualization, hardware configuration, and signal quality assessment
Galea SDK
Raw data, signal processing & filtering for all sensors via BrainFlow — Python, C++, Java, C#, plus Julia, Matlab, and R
Game engine SDK
All sensor data within Unity and Unreal, with example code and demo projects
Varjo Base
Software for powering the Varjo headsets — settings, presentation tools, real-time project control
Varjo developer SDKs
Robust access to eye tracking capabilities and data including pupilometry
Bring Galea into your lab

Order a beta unit, or talk through your study design with our Immersive Solutions Team first.

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