Could you be playing Doom with your brain?

[The Straight Story]

Could you be playing Doom with your brain?

Wow I knew that brain control technology was advancing but never realized how far along it is. At the recent Emerging Technology Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reveal what could be the next in hands free video game controllers. The technology presented allows gamers to play games with their brains.

The researchers concluded that when a gamer plays a video game subconciously he is emitting brain waves that actually can be read to interpret his actions. The technology has been used in a variety of manners such as being able to tell how loud someone's music is without actually listening to the music at all, instead using the brain's waves to indicate volume level. The technology has even gone so far that it can tell what your saying in your head (To a degree) it can tell if the words you are thinking sound like Ohh and ah!

The technology is so advanced that Wadsworth Center research scientist Gerwin Schalk showed the Conference video evidence of a test subject playing Doom with his mind. At the moment the technology isn't complete it can be improved, the player still needed a joy stick to control movements left, right, up and down. However the gun control was entirely controlled by the subjects brain allowing the user to fire his weapons with pinpoint percision and accuracy.

Gerwin Schalk wrapped up his demonstration with a brave and bold procomation. "What I'm here to tell you is that this is not science fiction. This is an emerging reality,"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=135820

[Speck Tater]

1. In the future "spyware" will take on a whole new meaning

as video games will come equipped with hidden software that alerts authorities if you are thinking subversive thoughts.

[Initech]

5. I'm thinking it's more going to be used for advertising.

Remember that episode of Futurama where they got hypnotic advertisements in their dreams? That will become a reality. :yoiks:

[1776Forever]

2. Wow - Reminds me of all those movies they have made about just that thing. It has good and bad

connotations. Makes you think though about what the future will be like!

[formercia]

3. Firefox

Not one of Clint Eastwood's better movies.

[1776Forever]

9. Oh that is one of them - "carries weapons controlled by thought"..

Plot

A joint Anglo-American plot is devised to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31, NATO code name "Firefox") which is capable of Mach 6, is invisible to radar, and carries weapons controlled by thought. Former United States Air Force Major Mitchell Gant, a Vietnam veteran—and former P.O.W.—who infiltrates the Soviet Union, aided by his ability to speak Russian (due to his Russian mother) and a network of Jewish dissidents and sympathizers, three of whom are key scientists working on the fighter itself. His goal is to steal the Firefox and fly it back to friendly territory for analysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)

[Speck Tater]

6. "Sleep Dealers"

A fantastic movie, but not much heard of here in the US because it's half English, half Spanish (with subtitles) but it gives a very realistic picture of both mind-controlled machines (including airborne killer drones) and extreme income inequality. A very scary, but plausible future where cheap laborers in Tijuana can be hired to do jobs in the US without ever having to enter the US.

[1776Forever]

8. Sounds like a very intriguing film - I'm going to look for it - thanks! n/t

[Speck Tater]

11. It reminded me of BofA when he emailed his family $280 and after fees they received $170. nt

[tridim]

4. I don't doubt that this tech is close, but it has been promised since about 1980.

Brain impulses were controlling cursors on the screen at least 30 years ago. I even remember a sensor headband being sold around then.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. And no one would ever think to use it in reverse.

[Speck Tater]

10. "Sometimes you control the machine, and sometimes it controls you."

A line from the movie "Sleep Dealers" (see my post above for details)

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Neuro helmets. That's it

[Dragonbreathp9d]

13. Cue Michael C Hall "Ive got you, under my skin"