Square Enix and NeuroSky revealed a suitably Halloween timed game at this year’s Tokyo Game Show in Judecca. Supposedly when the gamer is in a relaxed enough state of mind they will see Zombies (which I’m guessing they have to…
Category: brain control
Atari Mindlink
In 1984 Atari were working on perhaps the first ever attempt at a commercial video game head-controller: The Mindlink. Left and Right movements could be controlled (to a degree) using left and right eye-brow muscles, with three games being linked…
Brain Waves
Couple of Brain Wave Controller links: Kotaku and Yahoo News – “Paralysed Man Walks In Second Life” and AbleGamers preview of OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator .
Brain Control
OCZ Technology are due to release thieir £100 ($200) “NIA” Brain Controller on the 21st of April this year. This device will enable users to map certain thought and muscle movements to individual key presses on a keyboard. With about…
Emotiv Mind Control
Fancy controlling games with your mind? Emotiv Systems are taking this principle to the main-stream with their proposed $299 (£150) head-set. Read more at AbleGamers.com who are hoping to try this out at the Game Developers Conference being held right…
Milling About Second Life using Brain Waves
Although not strictly a game, “Second Life” has many sub-games. It has also garnered the attention of people wishing to improve it’s accessibility for more players. The video above shows brain waves being used to control the on-screen character around…
Brain Control
“Keio University bioengineers have demonstrated the control of a Second Life avatar using a non-invasive brain-computer interface. The news release is in Japanese but the Neurophilosophy blog reports that the device monitors electrical activity in the motoro cortex via external…