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What is Muse™?

When I first stumble upon Muse™, I was looking for an EEG headpiece that I could purchase for my Research and Development subject. One part of my research is to understand the brain activity of a person when listening to a certain type of music. By looking at the Alpha waves of the brain activity scan, it can show how one perceives the music they are listening to.


Muse™ is an EEG device widely used by neuroscience researchers around the world. It uses advanced signal processing to interpret your mental activity to help guide you. When your mind is calm and settled, you hear peaceful weather. Busy mind? As your focus drifts, you’ll hear stormy weather that cues you to bring your attention back to your breath.


Muse™ connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and once you're connected, users can immediately open the Muse™ Meditation app, put their headphones on and close their eyes. Once the session is completed, users can review their results and track the progress.

Since Muse™can give real-time feedback, the website also explains how it works.
Muse’s 7 finely calibrated EEG brain sensors – 2 on the forehead, 2 behind the ears plus 3 reference sensors – detect and measure the activity of your brain.
Muse 2 (one of Muse™'s products) has added PPG and pulse oximetry breath and heart sensors that are located on the front, righthand side of the forehead. Gyroscope and accelerometer body sensors are found behind the ears.

Muse™is a passive tool – it doesn't use any electrical stimulations, that allows users to be given accurate, real-time feedback on what's happening in their brains. It is very safe as EEG has been used by hospitals and research institutions for nearly a century to study the human brain. 

 Muse™ allows users to see how their brain, heart, breath, and body did from moment to moment of a meditation session through simple, easy to understand graphs and charts.

As amazing as this product sounds, my personal reasons for not buying this product yet is the pricing. The lowest price of a Muse™product is USD $149.99 or  SGD $207,84 or IDR Rp.1.521.581 which is pretty pricy for my wallet. And you have to pay for a subscription fee when using the meditation app. So that means you have to spend more money on it.

Another reason why I'm still contemplating about it is that I still haven't figure out how I'm going to use the EEG results as part of my project. According to the website, it can be used for applications like neurofeedback, research, art installations, education, and more!


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