**The NQG: A Letdown for Gamers**

I recently had the opportunity to try out the NeuroSky Gaming Headset, also known as the NQG. My expectations were high, but unfortunately, this product has left me feeling underwhelmed.

One of the features that I was most excited about was the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensor, which measures excitement based on conductivity of your skin. While it's a fascinating concept, I couldn't help but feel like it was more of a novelty than a practical feature. In order to get accurate readings, you need to be completely still, which is just not realistic for most gamers. I tried pinching my leg while wearing the headset, and the GSR sensor picked up on something, but it's ultimately pointless because it always detects movement.

The biggest question that I think most people in the gaming community will have is, "Why is there a heart rate sensor on a mouse?" What's the point? Is it just for streamers to show their audience that they're "authentic" and can see their heart rate while they're gaming? I'm not convinced that this feature adds much value to the product. While it might be cool to see someone's heart rate spike up when they're playing a scary game, I think it's ultimately just a gimmick.

However, I do think that the NQG could have potential as an observation tool for gamers and coaches. By tracking heart rates and other physiological responses during gameplay, we could gain insights into how different players respond to stress and pressure. This information could be used to improve performance and strategy in competitive games. The problem is that there's currently no good system in place to track this kind of data, and the software needs a lot of work before it can provide meaningful insights.

One of the things that I like about the NQG is that the hardware seems to be working well. The firmware has been updated to improve the time it takes to detect heart rates, which is a significant improvement. However, the software still needs a lot of work. Right now, we don't have surface calibration, and the button customization options are limited. While the overlay is functional, it's not very customizable, and I wish there were more color choices.

I was also excited to see how easy it would be to assemble the headset. However, I think the designers did a great job of making it as simple as possible. The insert mechanism for the back seat onto the side rails is a game-changer, making assembly a one-man job that's much faster and easier than expected.

**Streamers and Viewers**

As someone who watches streams regularly, I'm curious to know how viewers would react to seeing their favorite streamer's heart rate in real-time. Would it be cool to see someone's heart rate spike up when they're playing a scary game? Or would it just make them uncomfortable? I think that's an interesting question, and one that could spark some fun discussions about the role of technology in gaming.

**Software Maturity**

I'm eager to see how the NQG software will continue to develop. The fact that we have a manual track feature that allows us to create graphs based on our heart rate data is a great starting point. However, I think there's still a long way to go before this product can provide meaningful insights into our physiological responses during gameplay.

Overall, while the NQG has some interesting features and potential uses, it feels like it needs a lot more work before it can live up to its full potential.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enand so we at myx want to revolutionize gaming and giving real time statistics to players about their heart rate their excitement levels so they can be more immersed into their game play with the NEOS qg by myix Labs oh my God another gaming gimmick making the mouse more expensive who needs a heart rate sensor Monitor and GSR sensor what is a GSR sensor anyway anything these days that will go into a gaming product to make it more highend or Elite or whatever but yeah that's the whole idea it's so ambitious we've never seen anything like this before having a hard rate sensor on the gaming peripheral might sound gimmicky but you know I might want to control or monitor my heart rate during certain types of games like sure it's kind of cool and for streamers too if I'm streaming right now for example I want to give my viewers that extra authenticity of my reactions to what's happening inside the game definitely an unique element for the viewer and the audience to experience while I game and so those are the three camps not including my Onyx about their reactions to the naos qg and the heart rate sensor which Camp do you belong to and I wonder if your opinion will change after watching this video and if it does let us know in the comments below let's get on with the review this could be you every time you turn on your PC super chill CPU happy you Kraken x61 by YZ XD purchase discount in the description below so it's been 2 years since the kickstarter campaign was launched it was funded and now the naos qg or Quant ified gaming mouse is finally in my hands I was actually one of the early backers as well so I actually bought this Mouse uh because I absolutely love the Nao design the shape the format is excellent so first of all the qg Edition is now a different color it comes in matte gray it hides oil stains a little bit better uh versus the black uh the switches are the same to the original but the sensor is now upgraded the Pixar 3360 versus the 3310 on the original and then the reason why you'd buy this are the two new sensors inside the logo the heart rate sensor and a GSR sensor that measures excitement first let's talk about the tech and its placement on the mouse because that is the most crucial thing about this product the green laser here is a pixart heart rate sensor with up to 3,000 frames per second and 6.8 MHz frequency it's green because our blood absorbs green light so when the heart beats blood flow increases and more of that green light is absorbed so the sensor measures the change in green light absorb absorption and determines the heart rate that way now compared to my S7 the BPM is very close and calculations have been a little bit inconsistent sometimes it finishes in 10 seconds while other times it says it's almost ready but really not picking up anything for a few minutes but when it does you have a live heart rate measurement on your screen as long as you're making contact with that sensor which is the most crucial element about the nqg which unfortunately for me doesn't work so I have large hands and I prefer a hybrid grip where the right side of my palm touches the mouse body with this semic claw fingers while the left side of the mouse where the heart rate sensor is located is kind of at a weird angle and too low on the body for my hand to actually make contact with and apparently I'm an outlier in this uh position because my onic obviously did their research and figured out for the majority this was the best placement uh to accommodate for uh all types of hand sizes and only Palm grip so my hybrid grip doesn't really fit that description so uh for smaller hands less than mine and for Palm grip the sensor would be okay and I got to be honest it's quite unfortunate that this placement doesn't work for me I thought that the sensor would go under the thumb buttons where you know your thumb is always sitting regardless of hand size or on the right curve behind the DPI change buttons and I consider those spots to be sort of like safe spots where contact with the skin is guaranteed now the sensor is high quality it will pick up a heart rate regardless of skin color regardless of moisture on the skin and you can have a little bit of spacing between the skin and the sensor so like 1 to 2 mm is okay but in the case of my grip style the readout would not be recognized and I just couldn't figure out a better way to hold the mouse for the sensor to work again so unfortunate so let's talk about the second sensor the GSR sensor which makes perfect contact with my skin I really wish these were just flopped because this one is more of a let's put it in the mouse why not type of feature it's called the galvanic skin response sensor which measures excitement based on conductivity of your skin and this one is less important because for to be accurate you need to be totally still so if I pinch my leg for example you can see the spike with GSR picking up something but it really is kind of pointless since it always detects something when you move the mouse the biggest question most likely from the community would be why why is there a heart rate sensor on a mouse what's the point the biggest target here or maybe the only target would be streamers right now because to give my viewers that extra element of like you know authenticity so they can see my heart rate while I'm gaming so that uh if I'm playing something super scary and my heart rate goes up you know I'm scared you can have that extra observational element giving audience uh your heart rate BPM so that they're aware if your your heart rate is rising based on certain levels of the game would be really cool to show during really scary genres would be really awesome for competitive gameplay too from an observational standpoint so you can see if certain players on a team are more calm than others to see if heart rate increase um corresponds to poor performance or vice versa and you can sort of extrapolate that information to coach potential competitive game Gamers to do better in certain matches in certain situations but beyond this observational element right now there exists no good system to uh you know track your heart rate see when it was peaking see the average see the lowest and see how it was interacting During certain gameplay you have a little bit of that in the statistics tab in the beta software but it's just too little of a glimpse of what is happening with your heart rate at the specific sessions for example here's a 3-hour gaming session you can see my heart rate is all over the place but corresponding perfectly well with clicks per second and here's another one for csgo and these sessions are automatically created so I would like some manual track feature that would allow me to create these graphs based on my In-N-Out points now the good thing is the hardware is working well it's the software that needs to catch up they've already updated the firmware that uh drastically improves the time it takes to detect your heart rate so that's great and they're taking feedback on what the uh what users want to see in the final driver software or out of beta software for example right now we don't even have surface calibration yet but all the button customization DPI and color are working fine right now the overlay is done through the overwolf app that is super basic so you have three color choices uh but the promise is for this ecosystem to really grow and uh allow you to show a lot more information on that Circle or cycle between some information I just really wish the sensors were swapped because as of right now the heart rate sensor doesn't make contact with my skin and I hope I'm one of the very few assembling your ver gear gaming chair just got a whole lot easier with a simple insert mechanism of the back seat onto the side rails so you mount the side screws much faster a true oneman job assembly Made Easy by ver gear but I'm very interested to hear what you guys think about this product especially if you're a streamer is it a cool thing to display for your audience and if you're watching in somebody's stream is it a cool thing to to see their heart rate you know maybe spiking up very high and you're wondering if they're healthy or not and maybe should stop playing but like all this information especially if you extrapolate in temporal scales of seeing heart rate over time uh for certain games and it would be really cool as the software matures to see you know when we are most stressed out when we're most chilled out which what does our heart do and like in 3-hour gaming sessions and 1hour gaming session and Etc I would love to continue this conversation uh in the comment section below it was very interesting for my own to observe my own heart rate going from 70 to 90 in casual gaming and over 100 in Competitive Gaming so all that is very interesting but again you got to ask if this is a cool thing of value added for your audience because this whole thing isn't really for personal use it's more of an observation perspective from like a third party uh viewership so let us know if your mind has changed based on your initial expectations what you thought the nqg would be versus what you think it is now I'm Demitri with Haru thanks much for watching uh keep uh updated in the comment section because I will be giving my thoughts on new driver releases and firmer updates so guys thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next videoand so we at myx want to revolutionize gaming and giving real time statistics to players about their heart rate their excitement levels so they can be more immersed into their game play with the NEOS qg by myix Labs oh my God another gaming gimmick making the mouse more expensive who needs a heart rate sensor Monitor and GSR sensor what is a GSR sensor anyway anything these days that will go into a gaming product to make it more highend or Elite or whatever but yeah that's the whole idea it's so ambitious we've never seen anything like this before having a hard rate sensor on the gaming peripheral might sound gimmicky but you know I might want to control or monitor my heart rate during certain types of games like sure it's kind of cool and for streamers too if I'm streaming right now for example I want to give my viewers that extra authenticity of my reactions to what's happening inside the game definitely an unique element for the viewer and the audience to experience while I game and so those are the three camps not including my Onyx about their reactions to the naos qg and the heart rate sensor which Camp do you belong to and I wonder if your opinion will change after watching this video and if it does let us know in the comments below let's get on with the review this could be you every time you turn on your PC super chill CPU happy you Kraken x61 by YZ XD purchase discount in the description below so it's been 2 years since the kickstarter campaign was launched it was funded and now the naos qg or Quant ified gaming mouse is finally in my hands I was actually one of the early backers as well so I actually bought this Mouse uh because I absolutely love the Nao design the shape the format is excellent so first of all the qg Edition is now a different color it comes in matte gray it hides oil stains a little bit better uh versus the black uh the switches are the same to the original but the sensor is now upgraded the Pixar 3360 versus the 3310 on the original and then the reason why you'd buy this are the two new sensors inside the logo the heart rate sensor and a GSR sensor that measures excitement first let's talk about the tech and its placement on the mouse because that is the most crucial thing about this product the green laser here is a pixart heart rate sensor with up to 3,000 frames per second and 6.8 MHz frequency it's green because our blood absorbs green light so when the heart beats blood flow increases and more of that green light is absorbed so the sensor measures the change in green light absorb absorption and determines the heart rate that way now compared to my S7 the BPM is very close and calculations have been a little bit inconsistent sometimes it finishes in 10 seconds while other times it says it's almost ready but really not picking up anything for a few minutes but when it does you have a live heart rate measurement on your screen as long as you're making contact with that sensor which is the most crucial element about the nqg which unfortunately for me doesn't work so I have large hands and I prefer a hybrid grip where the right side of my palm touches the mouse body with this semic claw fingers while the left side of the mouse where the heart rate sensor is located is kind of at a weird angle and too low on the body for my hand to actually make contact with and apparently I'm an outlier in this uh position because my onic obviously did their research and figured out for the majority this was the best placement uh to accommodate for uh all types of hand sizes and only Palm grip so my hybrid grip doesn't really fit that description so uh for smaller hands less than mine and for Palm grip the sensor would be okay and I got to be honest it's quite unfortunate that this placement doesn't work for me I thought that the sensor would go under the thumb buttons where you know your thumb is always sitting regardless of hand size or on the right curve behind the DPI change buttons and I consider those spots to be sort of like safe spots where contact with the skin is guaranteed now the sensor is high quality it will pick up a heart rate regardless of skin color regardless of moisture on the skin and you can have a little bit of spacing between the skin and the sensor so like 1 to 2 mm is okay but in the case of my grip style the readout would not be recognized and I just couldn't figure out a better way to hold the mouse for the sensor to work again so unfortunate so let's talk about the second sensor the GSR sensor which makes perfect contact with my skin I really wish these were just flopped because this one is more of a let's put it in the mouse why not type of feature it's called the galvanic skin response sensor which measures excitement based on conductivity of your skin and this one is less important because for to be accurate you need to be totally still so if I pinch my leg for example you can see the spike with GSR picking up something but it really is kind of pointless since it always detects something when you move the mouse the biggest question most likely from the community would be why why is there a heart rate sensor on a mouse what's the point the biggest target here or maybe the only target would be streamers right now because to give my viewers that extra element of like you know authenticity so they can see my heart rate while I'm gaming so that uh if I'm playing something super scary and my heart rate goes up you know I'm scared you can have that extra observational element giving audience uh your heart rate BPM so that they're aware if your your heart rate is rising based on certain levels of the game would be really cool to show during really scary genres would be really awesome for competitive gameplay too from an observational standpoint so you can see if certain players on a team are more calm than others to see if heart rate increase um corresponds to poor performance or vice versa and you can sort of extrapolate that information to coach potential competitive game Gamers to do better in certain matches in certain situations but beyond this observational element right now there exists no good system to uh you know track your heart rate see when it was peaking see the average see the lowest and see how it was interacting During certain gameplay you have a little bit of that in the statistics tab in the beta software but it's just too little of a glimpse of what is happening with your heart rate at the specific sessions for example here's a 3-hour gaming session you can see my heart rate is all over the place but corresponding perfectly well with clicks per second and here's another one for csgo and these sessions are automatically created so I would like some manual track feature that would allow me to create these graphs based on my In-N-Out points now the good thing is the hardware is working well it's the software that needs to catch up they've already updated the firmware that uh drastically improves the time it takes to detect your heart rate so that's great and they're taking feedback on what the uh what users want to see in the final driver software or out of beta software for example right now we don't even have surface calibration yet but all the button customization DPI and color are working fine right now the overlay is done through the overwolf app that is super basic so you have three color choices uh but the promise is for this ecosystem to really grow and uh allow you to show a lot more information on that Circle or cycle between some information I just really wish the sensors were swapped because as of right now the heart rate sensor doesn't make contact with my skin and I hope I'm one of the very few assembling your ver gear gaming chair just got a whole lot easier with a simple insert mechanism of the back seat onto the side rails so you mount the side screws much faster a true oneman job assembly Made Easy by ver gear but I'm very interested to hear what you guys think about this product especially if you're a streamer is it a cool thing to display for your audience and if you're watching in somebody's stream is it a cool thing to to see their heart rate you know maybe spiking up very high and you're wondering if they're healthy or not and maybe should stop playing but like all this information especially if you extrapolate in temporal scales of seeing heart rate over time uh for certain games and it would be really cool as the software matures to see you know when we are most stressed out when we're most chilled out which what does our heart do and like in 3-hour gaming sessions and 1hour gaming session and Etc I would love to continue this conversation uh in the comment section below it was very interesting for my own to observe my own heart rate going from 70 to 90 in casual gaming and over 100 in Competitive Gaming so all that is very interesting but again you got to ask if this is a cool thing of value added for your audience because this whole thing isn't really for personal use it's more of an observation perspective from like a third party uh viewership so let us know if your mind has changed based on your initial expectations what you thought the nqg would be versus what you think it is now I'm Demitri with Haru thanks much for watching uh keep uh updated in the comment section because I will be giving my thoughts on new driver releases and firmer updates so guys thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next video\n"