Is this the next gaming revolution?

[Viper1]

dsgrue3 said:

Viper1 said:

No, it was a people problem, not technical.   Reading a brain wave is fairly simplistic from a technical standpoint (EEG has been around for nearly 100 years).  Training the brain to alter internal frequencies on the fly is not so simple and much more difficult when trying to actually play a fast paced game like Tetris.

Watch the TED demonstration on this product and then imagine trying to play Tetris with it.  It takes Evan 40 seconds just to perfom a single action (disappear).
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html

I'm not knocking the product itself or the incredible possibilities it opens up.  Only that we've tried games before and we simply are not trained for that kind of activity.

This is actually pretty funny because of how wrong you are. You're saying it takes longer to think about an action rather than doing it, yet every action is determined by our subconscious before it's relayed to our conscious to perform the action itself.

Then you take the hard example of disappear rather than the 'pull' action, which occurs (appears to) instantly.

Nothing like biased thinking to present nonsense.

I said nothing at all about the time it takes to 'think'.  I'm talking about the time it takes to focus your brainwaves into a specific pattern.  

As I said, Nintendo already tested this with Tetris and people simply couldn't come to grips with the ability to focus their brainbwaves fast enough to play the game at regular speed.

Now if a device were actually capable of reading our thoughts (scary as that is), then certainly we'd be able to play far better than we ever could with physical controls.  But as I said, actual thoughts and static brainwave patterns are not the same thing.