Neural Impulse Actuator - The Future of Immersive Gaming

[Knobley]

Suvega's showed up last week and seems to be defective.

It reacts more to wriggling the USB cable than it actually does to your head. Either that or Suvega's braindead and my brain is constantly spazzing out.

I am tempted to see what it would start registering if I put the headband on my cat.

Did you remember to put in the power crystals?

[Tehtsuo]

Suvega's showed up last week and seems to be defective.

It reacts more to wriggling the USB cable than it actually does to your head. Either that or Suvega's braindead and my brain is constantly spazzing out.

I am tempted to see what it would start registering if I put the headband on my cat.

Did you remember to put in the power crystals?

lol @ Napoleon Dynamite reference

I think cat playing would count as account sharing, but I wonder what a Blizzard account rep would say if you called em up and said "Please unban my account, I was just letting my cat play for a while"

[Vyndree]

I think cat playing would count as account sharing, but I wonder what a Blizzard account rep would say if you called em up and said "Please unban my account, I was just letting my cat play for a while"

But it's my minor dependant child!!


I seem to be more psychically inclined, as I CAN get the NIA to get the signal "look right". I can SOMETIMES get it to register "look left" but not with any consistency. The rest of the signals just all go mumbo jumbo-like.

[Gurblash]

I think you'd have more success using a headband to stick a Nintendo Wii controller to your head, and then just moving your head around.

I support this idea and have used my Wii mote to play games such as counter-strike, with a little bit of work this could be done... wanders off to the batcave to do some research.

[Freddie]

Devices that control games with EEG signals aren't new. They've been marketed for ten or maybe even fifteen years. What's different is that up till now, they were marketed primarily for neurofeedback, which means training brain frequencies for therapeutic or recreational reasons, and they worked only with games that came as part of the product. This might be the first one that comes with software that enables people to use it as a general purpose input device.

I used to write EEG software and I was part of a startup for a similar device about nine years ago. Our device looked pretty much like this one except it was a little bigger (older tech) and our electrodes were different. Another difference was that ours measured only EEG (brain voltages), whereas this one measures both EEG and EMG (muscle).

Back when I worked on this stuff, the big problem was electrodes. Brain voltages are tiny and it's hard to measure them through the skull and scalp. This is why, when you get an EEG in a doctor's office, they rub your scalp with abrasive paste (to remove dead skin cells) and glue the electrodes to your head with an electrolyte. This is too messy and cumbersome for gaming, but nobody could come up with a good cost-effective solution. I've never seen electrodes like the ones in OCZ's pictures, so maybe they're using something new that works a lot better than older stuff.

Muscle (EMG) signals are much stronger than brain (EEG) signals, so I'm not surprised that people in OCZ's forum seem to be finding it easier to control this device with muscles than with brain waves. Plus of course our nervous system is designed to produce muscle voltages on voluntary demand.

I agree with the comment about a Wii controller. I think that would work much better than this thing. Humans are hard-wired to communicate by nodding. Our muscles are adapted for that purpose, and it comes naturally. I think that would work great.

[Tehtsuo]

I agree with the comment about a Wii controller. I think that would work much better than this thing. Humans are hard-wired to communicate by nodding. Our muscles are adapted for that purpose, and it comes naturally. I think that would work great.

Then "What is Love" by Haddaway comes on, and causes every alliance player in the game to run into lava/jump off a cliff/cast divine intervention on a forest critter.

[Freddie]

Lol. Good one.

[Freddie]

This gadget was reviewed today on Tech Report.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14957