Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves
We are officially stepping into a new age of video game controllers. This new headset uses sensors on your head to pick up your brain activity. Well, I can’t do it justice, so here is an exert from the article.
” By the end of this year, San Francisco–based Emotiv’s sensor-laden EPOC headset will enable gamers to use their own brain activity to interact with the virtual worlds where they play. The $299 headset’s 14 strategically placed head sensors are at the ends of what look like stretched, plastic fingers that detect patterns produced by the brain’s electrical activity”
A little more:
” The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain’s cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts”
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to test one of these bad boys out.
Full article here: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves
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