Unparalleled behavioural analytics
Map emotional responses to real activities and contexts — eating, walking, working, playing — for insight that survives outside the laboratory.
OCO™ optomyography · sensing live
Measure what matters on the human face
Wireless, non-contact eyewear sensors plus a machine-learning platform — capture facial expression, emotion and behaviour anywhere, not just in the lab.
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The world's first eyewear that combines wireless non-contact sensors with a machine-learning platform, so teams can collect and analyse facial data and daily activity without touching the skin.
Human insight through wearable emotion sensing
Two layers of measurement, one continuous data stream
Signal quality decides insight quality. Emteq Labs pairs a validated optical sensing front-end with context-aware analytics, so every expression is anchored to what the wearer was actually doing.
Wearable expression & emotion sensing
OCO™ sensors track facial muscle activation and deliver precise three-dimensional mapping of skin movement, wirelessly and contact-free.
Behavioural nudges
From raw facial signals to decisions people can act on
Continuous, objective measurement turns everyday moments — a meal, a lesson, a therapy session, a game — into structured data. Our models detect chewing and eating episodes, attention, expressivity and valence, then feed timely feedback back to the wearer.
Features and benefits
A simple, all-in-one wireless system to track, timestamp and annotate responses
Every subsystem was engineered for field research: no gel electrodes, no head-mounted cameras pointed at the face, no bulky acquisition hardware.
Proprietary OCO™ Optomyography (OMG) sensors detect high-resolution facial activation at key muscle locations — without skin contact.
Smart 9-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) and an altimeter add posture, motion and elevation for full behavioural understanding.
Outward-facing camera synchronises scene context with each physiological response, so you always know the “why”.
Real-time streaming to the companion mobile app for live monitoring, in-session annotation and immediate biofeedback.
What you can measure
Eating behaviour & chewing episodes
Attention
Engagement & valence
Facial expressivity
Activity: walking, sitting, reading
Regulatory compliance: CE mark, RoHS, WEEE
Collect
Build and run studies on the go with the data-collection mobile app.
Monitor
Watch live signals and spot behaviour patterns as they emerge.
Annotate
Tag key events in real time or offline for clean downstream analysis.
Analyse
Export time-synchronised raw and interpreted data, video and tags.
Develop
Train new algorithms and build products on an open SDK.
OCO™ sensor technology
The power of patented three-dimensional facial sensing
At the heart of the device sit our patented OCO™ sensors, which map facial skin movement in three dimensions with millimetre sensitivity. That single breakthrough unlocks a wide range of professional applications.
Research & academia
Gather high-resolution, reproducible measures effortlessly for psychology, neuroscience and human–computer interaction studies.
Healthcare & wellness
Assess emotional state objectively, monitor progress in facial rehabilitation and personalise treatment or nutrition plans.
Content & market insight
Measure how content actually makes audiences feel, second by second, and validate creative decisions with physiological evidence.
Gaming & extended reality
Drive characters and environments with natural facial expression and gesture for deeper immersion and interactivity.
Training & soft skills
Quantify non-verbal communication and emotional intelligence to coach interpersonal performance with real evidence.
Human–computer interaction
Configure subtle facial gestures as a hands-free control interface for devices, accessibility and wearable computing.
Trusted by experts
What researchers and clinicians say
We are grateful to have earned the trust of respected scientists and institutional leaders. Here is what they shared about working with Emteq Labs.
Dr. Lisa QuadtResearch Fellow in Psychiatry
★★★★★
“I am interested in the interaction between body and mind. For researchers like me, integrated facial biofeedback is a dream come true.”
Prof. Hugo CritchleyConsultant Psychiatrist
★★★★★
“I've had the pleasure of working with Emteq's R&D team on a number of projects and am impressed with their commitment to research. They are dedicated to developing evidence-based technologies for the benefit of users, clinicians and researchers.”
Prof. Tiago GuerreiroProfessor at FCUL · HCI Researcher and Vice-Director at LASIGE
★★★★★
“A great device with so many possibilities for clinical research — usable and powerful.”
Dr. Mitja LuštrekHead of the Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
★★★★★
“A novel approach to sensing facial expressions and a nice product overall — I would be happy to give it a try in my own research.”
Powering progress through partnership
Sponsors and institutions building the future with us
Our sensors are validated in peer-reviewed studies alongside universities, research institutes and humanitarian organisations worldwide.
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Buyer & researcher questions
Frequently asked questions
OCO™ optomyography measures facial skin movement optically — no electrodes on the skin and no camera aimed at the face. Compared with surface EMG it removes gel, adhesives and signal drift; compared with camera-based facial coding it keeps working in daylight, during movement and outside a fixed lab setup, while raw processing stays on-device for privacy.
Time-synchronised streams cover three-dimensional facial muscle activation, expression and valence metrics, head motion and activity from the 9-axis IMU and altimeter, contextual video from the outward-facing camera, and event annotations. Data is available as raw signals or interpreted metrics through our SDK and analytics platform.
University laboratories, hospital and rehabilitation teams, mental-health and nutrition researchers, XR and gaming developers, and consumer-insight groups that need objective, continuous emotional and behavioural measurement in real-world environments.
Yes. Emteq Labs provides an open SDK and analytics platform, so partners can build proprietary algorithms, dashboards and interaction models on top of validated sensor data — with engineering support available for integration programmes.
Bring real-world facial data into your next programme
Talk to our science and engineering team about study design, integration and deployment of OCOsense™ across research, clinical and XR applications.
OCO™ and OCOsense™ are trademarks of Emteq Limited. This technology is protected by multiple granted patents, including but not limited to: GB2561537, GB2604076, US11,003,899, US11,538,279.