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Brain Controlled Tightrope Video Game Shown
Bob Sherpowski writes "According to CBBC News, they have come up with a 'game' that you control directly with your brain waves. University College Dublin researchers have designed a game where you are trying to get a monster to walk across a tightrope - if he leans one way or the other you have to concentrate on a box on either side of the tightrope to make him tip the other way. It's still in research and it's not for sale yet but it's the first step. "
There's already a game in existence that is controlled by one's brain--it's called life...
i mean we also have the Mind juggling monkeys.
what i'd really like is a tv that turned down the volume slowly, and then turned off after i fall asleep.
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I'm curious as to whether the human brain has a limit as to number of outputs. We know that with a feedback device so that a person can see what they're doing, it's possible to teach someone to be able to control characteristics of their brain waves. This could, presumably, be used as an output to control some device. What happens if we just take this higher resolution, add more types of devices Babies don't grow up knowing how to operate their hands and feet -- they have to see them moving and form links to understand what output signals correspond to "leg moved". Why couldn't we do the same with the brain? We wait for particular parts of the brain to be activated at a particular level, and treat that as a signal. I've no idea what kind of bandwidth we're talking about, but if you consider the complexity of talking and that we can deal with going from zero knowledge about talking to learning how to talk properly, that we could manage the same with a brain output device.
It would be nice to be able to type into my computer, to be able to interface in a more efficient manner than putting myself in a particular position, putting my fleshy extensions on a bunch of blocks on a keyboard, and then having the keyboard record how they wiggle and tell the computer.
OTOH, a brain-controlled computer would deprive my fingers of their precious exercise.
Oh, yes...a hands-free headset with goggles, one controlled by the brain, would be terribly cool.
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I'd certainly consider this interesting material for a tech demo, but can it function within a real game?
A game presumably has to be fun, and its controls conducive to that, and while the controls for a game including this functionality might be a remarkable technical feat, they could also be absolutely infuriating. We'll have to see.
These people can in fact move their eyes. That is how current systems work, by tracking the movement off the eyes they can manipulate a pointer over a keyboard.
Also this is just one way of doing it. I seen earlier experiments that worked simply by making the user think of two widely different things. Using that as calibration and then controlling something by thinking of those two things.
So in fact what you suggest was what they used in one experiment and it worked, tv presentator was capable of doing it with only a few minutes of training.
Flashing lights is just easier to make a working model I guess but in practice this could work for anyone with a working brain and who is capable of receiving input sufficient to learn about this.
Pretty amazing stuff really.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
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Mechanical limbs would certainly be an eventual goal, but even in the meantime, it could be used to control electric wheelchairs. I imagine my uncle Danny would have a much less painful life if he didn't have to drag himself around in his wheelchair like he does (he only has full control of his right leg, none of his left, and limited control of his right shoulder, so he can't control an electric wheelchair, but he can maneuver one with his good leg).
Brain powered exoskeleton legs...
:)
I can think of nothing more pertinent to "balance" than the act of walking.