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Project Epoc turns your brainwaves into a gaming accessory
This prototype of a gaming helmet, dubbed Project Epoc, looks to take your Xbox 360 obsession to a whole new level through your brainwaves. Yup, strap this baby on your head and you'll be mentally (and virtually) killing enemy aliens in no time.
The Project Epoc helmet from Emotiv Systems uses sensors to pick up electric signals in your brain generated by thoughts, feelings and expression. It can be connected wirelessly to various game platforms and sounds like a great outlet for gamers to engage in onscreen action in new and more exciting ways. Could mentally controlling things in the real world be far behind?
Project Epoc, via Ubergizmo
By nap0leon at 5:30 AM ON 03/08/07
Sounds nifty especially for FPS games.
Would need to be careful in multiplayer games that allow "friendly fire"... when a teammate does something to annoy you and you think "gee, I'd like to shove a grenade in their shorts"... next thing you know you blow them up.
By zwackery at 11:36 AM ON 03/08/07
it's just a fancier version of Atari's Mindlink system:
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink.html
*yawn*
Do the people who write for SciFi Tech ever bother to use the very medium they are posting in - i.e., the Internet - to do any damn research?
By amkochman at 12:40 PM ON 03/08/07
Oh yea, I'm sure referencing Atari's dinosaur would have been relevant to this article, way to point out a totally obscure point.
Gee, I can't wait to "connect to your Atari VCS 2600, Atari 7800 and Atari Home Computers".
By xaelith at 1:39 PM ON 03/08/07
Apparently, SciFi's not the only one that needs to do a little research. The Atari Mindlink and Project Epoc look for two completely different things. Atari's system looks for muscle movement of the face and head. The other measures brainwave activity. So in other words, with the epoc, you just think. With the mindlink, you also have to wink, wiggle your ears, raise an eyebrow, or sneeze to get the controller to do what you want.
By it at 6:31 AM ON 04/03/08
burned
By Wolfshammy at 2:22 PM ON 09/12/08
And so begins the the gaming experience leading up to ".Hack//" and other anime shows where people get mentally trapped in a game world.
As if we didn't have enough couch potatoes already, now they won't even have to wiggle their thumbs or type on keyboards!
I love technology XD.
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