# MOANA **Domain:** Bidirectional Neurotechnology / Neural Read-Write Systems **Doc Type:** Research Program Node **Maturity:** Experimental Objective **Primary Source:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long: Vespucci of Immortality]] **Related:** [[wiki/DARPA N3|DARPA N3]], [[wiki/Closed-Loop BCI|Closed-Loop BCI]], [[wiki/Neural Decoding|Neural Decoding]], [[wiki/Spatial Addressability|Spatial Addressability]] --- ## Definition **MOANA** means **Magnetic, Optical, and Acoustic Neural Access**. The Rice University project under DARPA N3 pursued a nonsurgical system for decoding visual-cortical activity and recreating visual information through a second neural interface. ## Systems Significance The design objective joins neural read, translation, neural write, multiple channels, and a bounded round-trip latency into a single closed-loop specification. ## Evidentiary Boundary The specification is evidence of an institutional engineering target, not evidence that the full person-to-person visual transfer objective was achieved. ## Sources / Provenance - [Feds fund creation of headset for high-speed brain link](https://news.rice.edu/news/2019/feds-fund-creation-headset-high-speed-brain-link), Rice University.