Thought-controlled gaming coming this year?

shadowghost752 - 523 days 17 hours ago

The Daily Mail? They are the biggest hypocites i have seen in a long time, why should anybody believe what those idiots have to say.

Since when was the Daily Mail a console expert anyway? They are too hung up on trying to demonise gaming itself and then they makes claims like that! What a set of imbeciles.

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RealityCheck - 523 days 17 hours ago

I work in a technical field so I am all in favor of progress... when it is actually progress.

The wii-remote\sixaxis this generation is a good example where innovation was applied in the form of motion sensing. In reality though, games relying heavily on that turn into either mini-games or attempt at real games with poorer controls. For real games the more precise the controls the better, they need to be responsive and accurate. Motion sensing has a bit of lag in response time and is not that accurate and sometimes "misread" the movement.

The reason I bring this up is that both voice control and thought\mind recognition will most likely suffer the same issues.

My point, those kind of controls might be ok for mundane use like a shopping mall kiosk or a TV interface, but when it comes to fast and precise gaming it's just forcing a solution that doesn't quite fit.

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superaktieboy - 523 days 17 hours ago

i'd rather have some physical interaction than just thoughts, and you have seen what the wii did, the more physical interaction, the more it will sell!!

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snakeater3 - 523 days 17 hours ago

imagine what psycho mantis can do to your brain !!

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ChampIDC - 523 days 16 hours ago

Thinking while playing a game? Blasphemy! I refuse to use my brain, period! I must act just like the loud-mouthed 12 year olds on Xbox Live!

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RadientFlux - 523 days 15 hours ago

Maybe I'm just and old geezer, but I'll put a pass on this technology for at least a few years.

Since the device would only have to interpret your thoughts there shouldn't be any harmful side effects. Though I am sure this technology will cause more then a few migraine/headaches.

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lynta - 523 days 14 hours ago

scary wonder if they are goiing to have rumble too lol

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dhammalama - 523 days 14 hours ago

I think this is cool as HELL! Controlling action by thinking!! Price permitting, I'll be getting one of the these as soon as they come out.

I know that it isn't really precise at its current state, but it can control a number of different variables and I think it would make a great addition to a gameplay experience -- Notice "addition" -- I'm not ready to put down the controller just yet either.

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lynta - 523 days 14 hours ago

imagine the how to cheat on those games: think of pamela andersson naked and you get unlimited life or whatever, rofl

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MrRaveDave - 523 days 14 hours ago

These headsets just arent advanced enough. Where i work a company is developing software that is used with such a headset but all there are capable of measuring is 'meditation' 'focus' and 'anxiety' brain patterns. Therefore thought controlled gaming is still a LONG way off as the different thought levels needed to be interptreted would be too diverse for a 'real' gaming expereince to be controlled by thoughts. Possible in 10-20 years maybe. just not now...

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SIX-0-3 - 523 days 12 hours ago

i don't feel like wirting anything so i will just say that if the did manage to make it work imagine playing a first person shootter all you would have to do is think that i want the cross hairs on his head pull the trigger and bam you hit the ground becuase you f---ing teammate just put a 45 up your as and let it run rampet lol this has nothing to do with the storry lol

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Gumpo - 523 days 11 hours ago

I read about this in PC Gamer a few months back. According to the preview, it looks like a good item to augment current controllers. The preview mentioned you need to train it to recognize the correct thoughts, and the previewer wasnt entirely convinced that it was reading electrical signals, and not just the way his forehead wrinkled up when he got angry, heh.

But this is the real deal, its not 100% do everything with your mind yet, but if any games actually include support for it, or if they can have decent patches applied or software installed that lets it work with old games, this gadget really is ready for prime time and could eventually change the way we play games.

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Isaac - 523 days 18 hours ago

Retards with this. Oh wait.

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