Brain-powered game controller
p2pnet.net news:-Now that’s some major headgear, and you can test drive it at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco until March 9.
What is it? Nothing less than a brain scan cap desiged to allow players to literally think about what they’re doing.
Starting tomorrow, video-game makers will be able to buy Emotiv’s electro-encephalograph (EEG) caps and software developer’s tool kits so they can build games which use the electrical signals from players’ brains to control on-screen action.
“Emotiv’s system has three different applications, says MIT Technology Review.
“One is designed to sense facial expressions such as winks, grimaces, and smiles and transfer them, in real time, to an avatar. This could be useful in virtual-world games, such as Second Life, in which it takes a fair amount of training to learn how to express emotions and actions through a keyboard.
“Another application detects two emotional states, such as excitement and calm. Emotiv’s chief product officer, Randy Breen, says that these unconscious cues could be used to modify a game’s soundtrack or to affect the way that virtual characters interact with a player.
“The third set of software can detect a handful of conscious intentions that can be used to push, pull, rotate, and lift objects in a virtual world.”
Project Epoc is a headset that uses sensors, “to tune into electric signals naturally produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expression,” says Emotiv. “It connects wirelessly with all game platforms from consoles to PCs.”
And as a total OT digression, on its Emotiv Vision page, the company features the same scary girl who once graced blurb on Sharman Networks’ Kazaa, which features as the p2p file sharing application in most RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) sue ‘em all anti-p2p, anti-file sharer lawsuits, and as the target in a separate class action.
Stock pic or copyright problem?
Also See:
MIT Technology Review – Connecting Your Brain to the Game, March 7, 2007
separate class action – Kazaa sued in class action, December 7, 2006
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March 8th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Now that I think abut it, I saw that same “scary girl” in a promotional backdrop for an LCD monitor at Wal-Mart. Weird.