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Controlling video games with your mind a reality this Thursday
The 2008 Tokyo Game Show in Japan is currently underway, and there's more than just awesome new games to look forward to. Game developer Square Enix — known for the widely popular Final Fantasy series — is planning an impressive technical feat this Thursday: a mind-controlled video game technical demo. The software developer has teamed up with NeuroSky, creators of the Mindset headset, which look like a pair of earmuffs with an angler-like extension that reads your brainwaves.
It's a cool idea, and I'm always down for new ways to control my games. Sad reality check: controllers like this rarely take off unless they are forced from inception — such as the Wiimote — because it's simply too risky for game developers to make a game around a controller that cuts down their install base.
As a tech demo though? Sweet. It's one step closer to a skullgun.
BusinessWire, via Gizmodo
By disapointed at 8:34 AM ON 10/08/08
that's not a link to the mind control video,it's a link to the mythbusters mona lisa painting.
By Kevin Hall at 1:17 PM ON 10/08/08
@D
See the Mindset link for the helmet. The link you're referring to takes you to an article related to "video game technical demos," as it implies.
Thanks for reading.
By D at 5:55 AM ON 10/09/08
@K
the article is not related to video game technical demo, it simply is a demo that has nothing to do with this article. Hence there is no point in linking to it. That demo is just a cool demonstration of why the parallel architecture of a gpu is good for drawing images.
And if you actually look at the phrase where that link is (the whole phrase not just part of it) it says 'a mind-controlled video game technical demo' and that I know of, the painting of the mona lisa in that demo isn't done via mind control.
So next time you try to be clever, don't you will never be.
By zionandsheol at 8:32 AM ON 10/13/08
Wow... and Kevin hasn't changed the link to this "video game demo" from "Myth Busted: Mona Lisa painted in 275 milliseconds with 1,100 paintballs" (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/08/myth_busted_mon.php). I would hope that Dvice would atleast CONSIDER they can make a mistake and check the link!
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