# Creating a Virtual Brainwear device

Similar to your physical EMOTIV Brainwear, Virtual Brainwear has several states: these include created, powered on/off, connected/disconnected and configured.All of these states can be controlled via the dropdown list accessible by clicking the More icon on the virtual device panel in EMOTIV App.

**Creating a new virtual device**

To create a Virtual Brainwear device:

1. Click on Devices in Emotiv Launcher, 
2. Click on Add a Virtual Brainwear device —this will bring up a virtual device configuration dialogue.  
3. To create a new virtual device, select the device you would like to emulate (e.g. Insight) and click on the Create Brainwear® button in the virtual device configuration dialogue.
4. When created, your virtual device will appear in the Virtual Devices list under the Devices tab.


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