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The EmSense Corporation gave a rather unexpected demo at Supernova today. EmSense makes a glasses-like headset that “senses your emotions,” according to the company. The headset reads biofeedback signals, apparently with some degree of accuracy. A video shown at Supernova demonstrated a player who could go into stealth mode when he held his breath in order to cross a minefield. Graphs of adrenalin and focus showed what the headset could read while a player was navigating the first particularly startling scene of Doom 3. Another mini-game allowed a player to cross a bridge as long as he was focusing on the task, but caused him to fall into a chasm when he lost focus. Avatars could also be made to blink their eyes when the player did. Training and education applications were demo’d as well. The slim headset is still rather obtrusive compared to how light it will eventually need to be, but it seems like things are on the way. There’s gotta be a ton of potential applications. I’m definitely buying any game where I can go into stealth mode just by thinking sneaky, anyway.