I just read an article about a new, interesting device,
the epoc. It lets you control software just with thinking.

http://www.emotiv.com/2_0/2_1.htm



They're allready working on a SDK for game developers.

looks very good and expensive, like all great gaming tools

Sooner or later, we can tape our dreams..

Uuhm, wouldn't this cause a waaaaay to much of an advantage if you simply 'think' I have to shoot the enemy and it shoots? I wonder how they would implement such a thing without becomming nearly invincible ...

Cheers

If it would be effective and easy to use (in the future), it would be pretty cool in combination with sculpting tools, I think.

Now lets say you buy a game, have this device and run it.
If you need 2 hours of practise just to not walk in rapid cycles the game will not be
much of fun.
It is simply not a gamedivice that the user can directly use on purpose,
it will rather create a lot! of noise and maybe with some training
a simple usable patter for game-controll. (like siting, and then give the order to not sit)
Humans are able to / designed to controll Fingers, hand, feet, mouth and eyes (and other movable parts)
but not to alter crude brainwaves for some purpose.
This device is not recording single neurons after all.
I doubt that this is more than some toy for technics-freaks.

i already control every aspect of my doings with my mind, more or less;)

but seems like a funny toy

Interesting. It would be useful to control other things. I mean they game is as always played with the joystick, and with that mind control thing the player can control other stuff, like weaponchanging or psi forces or even cooler stuff. Could be an improvement into multitasking direction. I hope it doesnt damages the brain.

Very interesting. This could be used for so many things, but without actually using it, you can't see how it ACTUALLY works. It is most likely VERY expensive as well...

The part I was most interested in was the Mood. You could change the skin/look/attack/agility/etc of your player depending on his/her mood. I think this would be VERY cool...

Also, the movements... This would be very interesting, and I don't think it would work too well for movement, as you don't want your player to have to get up and walk around his/her room to move in the world... lol. You'd have to use some other method to move, as I don't think it reads INTENTIONS...

And I can't even begin to think how the thought portion works. It's not like it can read your mind, such as you said Dan, "Kill all enemies"... So I'd like to keep track of this and see if it goes anywhere...