New Brainwave-Based Controller For Games
Posted Wednesday, March 21st, 2007, at 12:18 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
This flew by me in the run-up to SXSW, but Matt Mihaly caught it: it’s a new brainwave-based controller intended for use in developing computer games, from a company called Emotiv Systems. What’s interesting about this, and what seems to differentiate it from similar systems that have shown up on 3pointD in the past (but which I can’t find at the moment), is that it apparently tracks three discrete areas of brain activity: facial expressions, emotional states, and conscious thoughts. As Matt notes, it remains to be seen how effective this will be, but it’s an exciting prospect. Looking forward to seeing what comes of it.
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Surprisingly, it’s not gotten much discussion. Even among those discussing “clickless” sites ( e.g. http://www.dontclick.it/ ). Not sure why.
I must admit I have been telling lots of people about brainball, this with more axis to juggle looks fascintating
It’s great to see more affordable and user friendly interfaces finally coming to market in this interesting area. I’ve been working with some of these sorts of interfaces for the last couple of years, and did a presentation on biofeedback interaction and SecondLife at an Indy Games conference in Australia a couple of years ago.
More info here:
http://www.sonicviz.com/music/members/7/blog.php
Like it ..But will we ever see a games system using this technology in our own home ?