How is the patent situation? Does a well funded startup have a chance to disrupt this field ?<p>Because if the potential were seeing in research on fmri neurofeedback for example does work, we might be talking about something that will make virtual reality look insignificant.<p>One example is accelerating mental learning processes that take experienced meditators decades(they call it enlightenment which leads to development of deeply happy and caring human beings  ) into a period of weeks&#x2F;months of a much less intense effort, so the experience may be available to everyone, not just a rare few.