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'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year
An anonymous reader writes "In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming with Nintendo's Wii, the power of the mind may be the next big thing in video games. And it may come soon. Emotiv, a company based in San Francisco, says its mind-control headsets will be on shelves later this year, along with a host of novel "biofeedback" games developed by its partners. Several other companies — including EmSense in Monterey, California; NeuroSky in San Jose, California; and Hitachi in Tokyo — are also developing technology to detect players brainwaves and use them in next-gen video games."
"mind-control headsets" do exatcly what the name implies.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Does the average kid gamer have enough brain power to set off the sensor?
I mean, how many madden players are there who buy the same game 49 times?
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This isn't good... girls will start beating us at video games on a regular basis.
The one where everybody on the Enterprise became addicted to that game that came with a headset and you controlled with your mind? Everybody became addicted to the thing and went all nutzo. Then Wil Wheaton saved the day by making out with Ashley Judd.
I would totally get this if I got to make out with a hot chick in a starfleet uniform.
I just hope to hell that nobody ever interfaces one of these to a cell phone. The bluetooth headset zombies are quite bad enough, thank you.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I already spent years in brutal mind games competitions, while dating girls. I retired with the gold medal when I married my wife.
I thought the entire appeal of online porn is that it's "victory" without the mind games, though its ultimate dissatisfaction is because it's really just a single-player mind game anyway.
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Agreed, screw the powerglove, roll on Coneheads/Demolition Man style mind-fuckery.
Slashdotters may actually find themselves in the forefront of a sexual revolution, imagine-
The hot chick from the flat above asking if you can come round and fix her BSOD'd Love Helm (tm).
Torrents of the outputs from said Helms floating around on The Pirate Bay.
Spurned ex-boyfriends of Hollywood starlets leaking recordings of the signals, rather than plain old homebrew porno.
Oh, the possibilities. Gotta go - ah - lie down...
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
How are these mind control games different than other games? We already know that all games control the minds of kids.
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