Brain Controlled Pinball Becomes Reality
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By the way, if you want to mention it, the pinball machine being used to demo the technology is Addams Family Pinball.Tom Goldman said:
I know because it's my favorite machine at my local arcade: I'd recognize that electric chair anywhere
And then we'll have brain pong, which will lead to an explosion of braingames that'll first be cool and then oversaturate the market until it collapses under it's own weight. Then later when braingames have been ruled out a fad, a company from Japan (where braingames never really died) will bring the industry back to America.
How many of you have heard of the commercially produced versions of this idea?
Firstly there's the rather erratic OCZ NIA (Neural Impulse Actuator) http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator
Known for being rather unreliable, but improving reaction times in games...
And the far more impressive looking Emotiv Epoc.
http://www.emotiv.com/
Both of which demonstrate relatively cheap commercially produced EEG machines designed specifically with gaming in mind.
Still, as a technology for this, EEG still leaves a lot to be desired. You have to 'train' the computer to recognise your thoughts, and it apparently requires an insane amount of concentration to use one of these devices to actually control anything.
Personally, I'm interested, but only if it can improve the amount of control we have over games.
I find most gaming environments incredibly restrictive with regard to what you can do in them...
(Consider that the human body amounts to having 60+ degrees of freedom even in a highly simplified model; No game controller setup I can think of currently gets much past 15 degrees of freedom worth of controls.)
Firstly there's the rather erratic OCZ NIA (Neural Impulse Actuator) http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator
Known for being rather unreliable, but improving reaction times in games...
And the far more impressive looking Emotiv Epoc.
http://www.emotiv.com/
Both of which demonstrate relatively cheap commercially produced EEG machines designed specifically with gaming in mind.
Still, as a technology for this, EEG still leaves a lot to be desired. You have to 'train' the computer to recognise your thoughts, and it apparently requires an insane amount of concentration to use one of these devices to actually control anything.
Personally, I'm interested, but only if it can improve the amount of control we have over games.
I find most gaming environments incredibly restrictive with regard to what you can do in them...
(Consider that the human body amounts to having 60+ degrees of freedom even in a highly simplified model; No game controller setup I can think of currently gets much past 15 degrees of freedom worth of controls.)
Fair enough expense wise, but the same could be said about almost any piece of technology. Over time it will become more affordable hopefully.rokkolpo said:
Also there are many disabled gamers out there who have some insanely awkward hardware. Saying that the last thing a disabled person wants is gaming is pretty misinformed. Many disabled persons have hobbies you know.
Of course their physical needs come first but a chance at having some fun and having it not be a chore?
I think they'd embrace that.
This isn't just an improvement to gaming, but an improvement to just about anything.
We can now translate brain signals, just think of the possibilities of that. Pinball is just a simple starting point. Next could be all of us living like a telekinesis society.
We can now translate brain signals, just think of the possibilities of that. Pinball is just a simple starting point. Next could be all of us living like a telekinesis society.
