Tuesday, December 4th 2007
New Controller Interfaces With Your Brain
While new joysticks and racing wheels attempt to make you feel like you're actually in a helicopter or race car, we have yet to see a control interface that properly emulates something fanatical, like a wand for Harry Potter games, or a goat for World of Warcraft. Emotiv Systems is working on a controller that can fill in the blanks, by connecting right to your brain. In the Electronic Arts game Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, prototypes of this controller have already been used to trigger spells and move the character, based on nothing more than the thoughts of the user. With a lot of help from James Breen, who used to work for EA and Lucas Arts, the Emotiv Systems controller will find a way to retail shelves by late 2008.
Source:
Neoseeker
22 Comments on New Controller Interfaces With Your Brain
Two minutes later an in-game ad appears and the system records your cerebral reaction to the advertisement. Based on your response, the game adjust (and send feedback) accordingly.
Two words. "Mind rape".
Not to mention how this kind of thing could be used for DRM or copy protection.
No thanks. I'll stick with my keyboard and mouse.
...Well, I did. :p
However very cool device.
I wonder though, what kind of edge would this give in FPS games? I can already hear the complaints: "No fair! You interfaced ur brain with ur "insert FSP title" and that's why you got gazillion frags/kills. All I gots is a crappy optical mouse!"