BCI - brain controller video gaming?
Posted by Kerri on September 12th, 2007
After reading this article a few days ago - I have been utterly unable to settle on a definite side of the argument. Using your brain to control things in the physical realm has been a major section of science fiction for many decades now and it only makes sense that scientists and sci-fi fans would push the limits of technology as far as their imagination.
Wired posted an article back in May explaining and showcasing the progress of two different companies in the field of brain controlled video games. If you snoop around a little and head to the Emotiv website, you will see a lovely journalistic video showing off a game which allows the player to move parts of Stonehenge with purely the power of your mind.
My question to you is, how do you feel about this? of course it looks kinda cool but on a more realistic level, won’t this just lead the way to even-less active couch-potatoes? Not only that, but how do you feel knowing that technology has access to your brain signals and thought patterns? how would you know that it wasn’t just your active brain signals that were being monitored digitally?
WIRED article - Brain to Control games directly, Maybe vice versa
Emotiv Official website
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October 24th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Having brain-computer interfaces could offer immersive virtual reality experiences in leisure and considerably speed technological development at work, seeing as computer circuits process information millions of times faster than what our mammalian neurons are capable of. But if you were directly connected to the web via your biological hardware, you would need elaborate firewalls to ensure that nobody could hack into your brain. You can see Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2 for thought experiments on this idea.