person

Mary Lou Jepsen

Openwater founder; ex-MIT, ex-Facebook, ex-Google[X]

Founder of Openwater (non-invasive functional brain imaging at consumer-device cost). Former executive at MIT Media Lab, Facebook Oculus, and Google[X]. Author of multiple foundational holographic display patents.

current Founder, CEO, Openwater

homepage @marylou_jepsen

Strategy positions

Cyborg/mergeendorses

Brain-computer interfaces; humans must merge to keep up

Argues consumer-grade non-invasive brain imaging will give humans direct cognitive interfaces with computers and AI within a decade; positions Openwater as building that substrate.

Non-invasive brain imaging at consumer-device cost is the bridge between AI and biology. We will see the brain in action and turn that into actionable, sharable signal.

¶ articleOpenwater Health· Openwater· 2024· faithful paraphrase

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David Eagleman
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Stanford neuroscientist; Neosensory founder

Record last updated 2026-04-25.