Gaming Headgear That Reads Your Filthy, Filthy Mind
Alice, mistress of all things wondrous and phantasmagorical, posted this frightful number today over at Wonderland. It's a scary freaking helmet that reads your brainjuice. So there's that.
What, first the Koreans are trying to put subliminal messages into games that tell you to stop playing, then the army comes clean about its Augmented Cognition project, and now my brain gets a power glove? Did anybody else drink the Kool-Aid, or was it just me?
Check it:
The first aspect demonstrated was facial recognition. Without a camera of any sort, Emotiv's headset is able to detect a variety of facial expression. Smiles, frowns, open and closed mouth are detected in real time, as is the direction the wearer's eyes are looking. It even detects blinks and winks.
The second aspect we saw was the headset's ability to judge states of excitement or calm..[...]..Emotiv's reps suggested a variety of gameplay elements that could be based upon this recognition, from mood-adaptive soundtracks to unlocking berserker modes in first person shooters on the basis of the player getting amp'ed up on real adrenaline.
By focusing upon physical movements, users are able to translate their thoughts into movement in a 3D virtual environment. Push, pull, slide, rotate, lift, drop, and six other motions can currently be detected by the Emotive tech.
So, yeah. It knows when you are blinking, it knows when you are mad...if it can predict when I want a highball and a foot rub, this could be the end of civilization as we know it.
Brain-scanning game peripherals [Wonderland]
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Posted to Miscellany on 27 March 2007
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