Playing Games With Your Mind!

[CertifiedWaffle]

It would be neat, but I don't think I would try it out.

 

[Susano]

That, to me, would be boring. I mean, just control stuff with your mind? You would have to concentrate fully on the game and wouldn't have to move your arms or have a twitchy trigger finger. Also as it was said before it would make everybody equal in multiplayer as all you would have to do when you saw someone was think sustained fire aand that would kill them or they would kill you, it would be like WoW. not that I have anything against WoW :>)

 

[The Random One]

That technology is waaaaay off. When such devices are already being widely used to allow handicapped people to operate computers, then you can be sure they will soon be used to control games.

EDIT: Heh, I followed Flour's link, and it didn't load properly, so it ended abruptly like so: After all, if Von Neumann and Vinge are right, there won?t be any humans arou

 

[Nutcase]

That, to me, would be boring. I mean, just control stuff with your mind? You would have to concentrate fully on the game and wouldn't have to move your arms or have a twitchy trigger finger. Also as it was said before it would make everybody equal in multiplayer as all you would have to do when you saw someone was think sustained fire aand that would kill them or they would kill you, it would be like WoW. not that I have anything against WoW :>)

Might I remind you that you control your limbs IRL using your mind? As soon as we can make controls more direct, we will, and no one will stand the old unintuitive controls anymore. Some folks will go on nostalgia trips, loudly proclaiming that the old controls were "for real men", and quit after fifteen minutes when they realize the old stuff was actually pretty horrible for anyone.

If something needs to be harder in a game, then we'll simulate a harder reality.

 

[MSORPG pl4y3r]

Has anyone seen some of the old docter whos cause I remember onw of the stories where some alians (the early cybermen I think but it could be the Daleks) planted divises onto ppl heads and took control of them, actualy the new one did that too. Has anyone the episode of Red Dwarf Better than Life in whitch Lister Rimmer and the cat upload their minds into the game and they cant get back out? I see that in the future if this stuff goes ahead.
Sceince fiction has warned us about this time and time again, for the sake of Humanity Dont make that shit man! Give us a better apocolyps than that.

Actualy alot of real life things were inspired from sci-fi, satalights for one, earphones for another, there are more but I cant think of any right now.

i already find it terrifying to look up from my paper on the subway to see half the riders in the car watching little screens, psps or playing games on their phones, etc.

have you ever looked at someone staring into their phone? its like a romero movie. scares the shit outta me.

imagining someone doing the same thing with some gizmo stuck on their head...

ugh.

I know how you feel, I see that alot, ITS CREEPY! somtimes you can hear ppl muttering things if you listen carfully.

 

[Susano]

Might I remind you that you control your limbs IRL using your mind?

Ah, yes, but you can feel your muscles and limbs IRL. In a game your mind would be detached from your 'body' and you would feel nothing. I know I sound like a science-hating nostalgic person but it's just a personal preference.

 

[Reep]

Since its common belief that mobile phones cause head cancer, i would hate to think of what people would come up for this.

Also, the safety of it would come into consideration, if its too heavy it might cause neck problems etc.

 

[Nutcase]

Might I remind you that you control your limbs IRL using your mind?

Ah, yes, but you can feel your muscles and limbs IRL. In a game your mind would be detached from your 'body' and you would feel nothing.

And what exactly do you feel from a keyboard, a mouse, an arcade stick, or a wireless pad with piss-weak force feedback?

I know I sound like a science-hating nostalgic person but it's just a personal preference.

You sound like you haven't thought things through. We haven't experienced the new controls, nor do you have a concrete argument in favor of the old ones.

Where a physical control fits an activity intuitively (e.g. a wheel controller and racing, joystick and flight) then sure, it has something to give to the experience. But running around, shooting, jumping, ordering troops around, skating or flipping burgers as a Sim - the majority of stuff in games - have exactly nothing to do with an analog stick or a mouse. Mental control won't be accurate/reliable/cheap enough to match pads and mice right away, probably not even soon. But when it is, there will be no point in using the old stuff.