Brain control headset for gamers

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Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.

A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.

"It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer," said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.

"It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively," she added.

The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.


Ms Le said: "Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company and we've created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands that a video game can accept and control the game dynamically."
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Just thought I'd post this, sorry if it has being posted before.

I find this very interesting and I think it would be best suited to RPG's myself, would be good if they could develop it to interact with windows, opening applications, just thinking to type in a webpage and post on forums and it doing it, lots of potential for this.
 
I don't think its anyway near accurate enough to detect typing etc, just the large changes in emotion etc, and prehaps later some more major movements.
 
Yeah saw this when it was posted the other day

It's coming out this year too, just a bit sceptical about how good it's going to be. Probably be a bit wierd though especially when the mind starts wondering.

Boobies go through my mind a lot, how would the game interpret boobie thoughts
 
I saw this on a web blog i visit rugulary. It will be a fair few years before we see this in the mainstream console industry though :p.
 
I would have thought (no pun intended) that it works by mapping a signal to a keyboard command. So you think look up a couple of times, the devices creates an eeg map and then this can be mapped to a button press.
 
This was done years ago in the film Firefox with good old Clint Eastwood. Thought controlled weapons attacks, but remeber to do it in russian !!!!
 
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