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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 saw a brain in a it s ultimate to things with their demo of the technology in san Francisco As part of the recent game developers Confer ence the future is brain based technology 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 is to make human computer interaction More lifelike emotive 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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 for and apply it across a wide variety of areas be added its been everybody ultimate fantasy to control things with their brain in a game Marco the demo Guinea pig donned a Headset with 15 or so sensors that recorded his Facia 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 objects i i to s i i i i i j1 demonstrate the Point he could train the what games can be done with this games system to associate a particular emotion such with wizards such As Harry Potter can be As anger with a particular control such As More immersive with this new Way of control lifting 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