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A US-based technology company has developed a headset that will literally allow players to influence what happens in a videogame with their minds. The headset comes with 16 sensors that register the user's moods and expressions, which all have an impact on gameplay. Perhaps most excitingly, the headset is scheduled for release this Winter, along with a game based around kung-fu masters. The whole package will cost around $299.

Other agencies, including those involved in defence and medicine are also very interested in the technology.
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37 responses // Psychic gaming is here

  • Beat that Wii.
    joshuaheller
  • Hope its only used for good. There is a responsibility that we have when technology moves up another notch.
    sueathome
  • It could be helpful in keeping someone in a good mood. Be in a good mood and you can reach the finish line quicker.....positive thinking?

    Sounds interesting.
    J_Jammer
  • yeah ill use that after a gneration of people try it out. no thanks! cell phones scare me enough
    zealotohio
  • They already use this technology for years in the psychology field, I believe. it's not brand new and it's nothing to be totally afraid of. But I can understand people's apprehension of such technology.
    J_Jammer
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  • Um, can it be wired to go the other way? I don't want to turn into Donkey Kong.
    LarzNero
  • It will help in biofeedback training to develope control over different states like producing Alpha, Beta, Delta and Theta patterns at will.
    Argon18
  • This technology also helps out with people who are paralyzed from the neck down. They are able to use computers and draw on virtual tablets. I really want to try this but I definitely wont be buying the first generation.
    TopScruffy
  • Remarkable, the future is now.
    Wen_Del
  • Best to wait until tech like this is perfected in order to avoid brain damage.
    ninjam_flow
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  • Out with PS3, XBOX and SEGA - In with A.I. and the probabilities of all out laziness!
    damush
  • don't do it!!! it's only a more effective way to control our minds.....soon after you use it you'll be experiencing blackouts that last for a couple of minutes then hours and then eventually days on end and you'll wake up and you're making warheads in Bush's basement...
    NaCl
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  • To be perfectly honest, the idea of hooking up something to my brain to play games is a bit frightening....

    ...But that doesn't stop it from being amazingly cool. I wonder how effective the technology really is?
    Saladin
  • That would be fun to try out.
    cerealforeal
  • This is pretty awesome but....are we 100% sure we aren't being taken for a ride here? I checked out the company website and to be honest, other than the product demos (which seem a little studio style) all the information (including that about the company) is really vague. Sweet if its true but considering we just figured out this year how to make a monkey move an artificial limb with its brain this is pretty advanced.
    SilenceNoMore
  • This is probably going to be the last generation of gamers with good hand eye coordination.
    flyingkick
  • http://www.wilddivine.com/products/stress-relief-game/
    I did find a company that is father along in developing biofeeback game than the one in the article.
    Argon18
  • This is kind of creepy. I don't want a computer reading my brain.
    huffamoose2k
  • Completely awesome... I want one. A lot. Neural controllers FTW.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • so you wont use controls for sims ? time to get scandalis
    power_packed_ro
  • That'd be the day I hook a game up to my head, let alone my mind...
    TyMarshal
  • Mind control, the more the machine learns the closer it gets to reading you from a afar, marketing will definitely take this to the moon.
    marpunk
  • I have powers like that already, I'm psychically controlling you to read this right now ...
    TheCocoon
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  • Bloody hell. Not a bad idea. So is it basically if you think about the movement of the in-game character, the sensors pick that up and the game reacts to your thoughts?

    Seems a bit far-fetched, but none the less, cool :)
    TaylerPERRY
  • terrifying
    ashawhar
  • It was time to start playing mind games.
    powerup
  • technology is amazing.... just as long as it doesn't cause brain cancer...(doesn't everything)...
    misticblue7
  • jUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS, JAMES T KIRK HAD ONE OF THESE
    regularrf
  • http://images.nintendolife.com/features/hardware_lookba...
    As long as it doesn't causes as much head aches as the virtual boy...
    hack26
  • I am physically disabled.. I gotta have this so I can play a Ninja Warrior and fulfill my life's ambitions!

    A guy on TV stated that if his Playsation had a hole for sex he would never leave his house (guess his mom supplied the food)... once the porn industry gets hold of the tech... will geeks, nerds & gamers cease to reproduce? I guess it's the same population that thinks the Internet is for porn.. (so scary)

    I kinda like the way WII was going with their tech. But still I want one so I can be a Ninja.. Such a huge Jet Lee fan! And there are so many styles of martial arts!
    arcticspirit
  • Well, if it works the technology has insane (literally) potential.
    damnneargenius

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