I Mean, Have You Ever Actually Seen Your Brain?

Posted on 20 February 2008 by rustedangel

Does this make you feel like the Last Starfighter?

Quote: “The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.”

Is this the next step towards e-brain activity on the ‘net, or just a lame Second Life peripheral? Either way, the Major wants you to cut the comm chatter.

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7 Responses to “I Mean, Have You Ever Actually Seen Your Brain?”

  1. trippenbach, on February 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am Said:

    Pretty cool tech, I think. The implications for disabled control are way cool. As for a mainstream peripheral - maybe. I’d say takeoff depends on how responsive it is.

    They’ve got some interesting reactions to this over at Kotaku. User MrPerson said something cool:

    Wonder what’ll happen if the game scares the user, too. Will you be able to map “get the hell away” to the “augh holy crap” thought?

    Now that’s a cool idea!

  2. trippenbach, on February 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am Said:

    Yeah, having read this, I think this is going to maybe need some more work.

  3. tanith6227, on February 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm Said:

    Holiday 2008 release, eh? Oy.

    This is a nifty idea, but it doesn’t seem to be ready yet.

    I’m not really interested in technology that makes video gaming an even more passive activity, but the potential applications outside the gaming market (such as improving quality of life for the disabled) is pretty cool.

  4. rustedangel, on February 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm Said:

    Jesus Christ. Infinium Labs, anyone?

    Ok… this is not that bad; they actually do have a product. It just doesn’t seem to work very well. On the other hand, the thing the Wright brothers flew at Kittyhawk also looks like shit by today’s standards. Further, it only took 10 years after the first powered flight for humans to perfect the technology to the point of being able to go to war with it.

    Personally I hope this is one of the baby steps along a similar route for the man-machine interface. Maybe minus the global war.

  5. tanith6227, on February 21st, 2008 at 8:41 am Said:

    These guys certainly aren’t as bad as Infinium - as you say, they at least showed up with a product, and it does work … sort of. Some of the time.

    It’s just unfortunate that they’d have this kind of showing, because it’s going to dampen a lot of the interest and enthusiasm surrounding the product.

    The Wright Brothers had the advantage that their device was the first truly successful flying machine; these poor bastards are trying to get into a field where there are a number of other, proven tools (controllers, mouse & keyboard, etc) for doing what they’re trying to accomplish with this headset.

    I’m with Rusty here: I think it would be rad if this technology could be put to widespread, reliable use in the next decade. As I said, I don’t much care if I’m able to play Halo 6 with my brain, but it would be cool if this technology were making life better for people in wheelchairs by then.

  6. trippenbach, on February 25th, 2008 at 9:23 am Said:

    Another step on the road to fully immersive gaming . . . now it’s a vest.

  7. tanith6227, on February 25th, 2008 at 11:52 am Said:

    So they showed the headset again at the GDC. It went a bit better.

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