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it to Market another California company to do with a new Headset that could debut Neurosky for instance is also working on a next year technology for games that uses brain control Nam do chief executive and Tan Lepresi in said developers will be Able to detect Dent said their company has created a brain computer interface that detects thoughts through sensors in a helmet and translates them into actions on the screen it can also detect facial expressions like a smile or a Grimace and translate those As Well the company just released tools developers can use to create games that take advantage of its system i saw a demo of the technology in san Francisco As part of the recent game developers Confer ence the future is brain based do said the next generation of Manga and mimic a users expressions such As a smile or a Wink and respond to emotions such As excitement or Calm the goal isto make human computer interaction More lifelike it s been emotive systems was founded ii by prizewinning scientist Allan everybody s ultimate Snyder Chip designer and 1 radiate communications to control things with their Hornin in n name former vice president and Drain m a game head of development at l founder Neil Weste and entrepreneurs be and do the chief product officer is Randy Breen Lucas arts ton emotive development kit i allow developers to create of emote a systems using the technology it works by detecting the will not just be limited to phys electrical activity in the brain or eeg Waves cat control with a traditional Joystick we can for the Headset use your conscious and no conscious behave monitors brain activity and processes it Asior and apply it across a wide variety of be added its been everybody ultimate fantasy to control things with their brain in a Marco the demo Guinea pig donned a Headset with 15 or so sensors that recorded his facial muscle movements and monitored the electrical activity in his brain he showed How he could concentrate so he could control objects in a virtual world such As a simple Block or a big Stone while he had occasional difficulty with the prototype system it worked Well enough to demonstrate the Point he could train the system to associate a particular emotion such As anger with a particular control such As lifting an object anytime he wanted to lift an object in a game he just makes himself angry inputs for a game it also interprets muscle movements As indications of blinking Wink ing Eyebrow lifting Striling frowning and More in the past Many such sensors relied on attachments to Bulky machines or Sticky connective gel to detect eeg signals be says emotive Headset will be wireless the software that comes with the kit allows the sensors to be customized to a particular persons thoughts for instance a user can get angry and Tell the machine this emotion is the specific control for pushing an object in a game while sadness can be linked to pulling objects what games can be done with this games with wizards such As Harry Potter can be More immersive with this new Way of control Ling action and of course gamers could also play a Jedi Knight from Star wars moving objects with the the a a 3 o cd s
