Another CES video dispatch: Emotiv Technologies showed off their latest collaboration with IBM, a brainwave-reading gaming interface. It sits on your head (looking sort of like the SQUID rig from Strange Days... did anyone else ever see that besides me?) and lets you control virtual stuff with your mind.
For example, an onscreen avatar will smile when you smile, or adopt a Matthew-McConaghey-like body posture when it senses you're feeling relaxed. (Emotiv says the rig could be also be used for autism research, among other non-gaming applications.)
Or you can concentrate and move game objects telekinetically a la The Force. Check out this video - near the end, Marco The Emotiv Rep does a damn good Skywalker impression.
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Alan Bajandas
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And here I thought Scientology had the market cornered on entirely unexplained displays rather half-assedly corresponding to internal psychological states.
(See here: http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/images18/blue-e-meter.jpg )
January 13, 2008 9:24 PM
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