There're some interesting news I come across recently, all about new methods to play games.
Look at this project:
RApid Gaze Based Interaction Techniques with on-line virtual environments for motor-impaired users. Yup, is it amazing? He researches on playing games with eyes. There has been success in using eye gaze as mouse emulation for meeting the demands of desktop environments, e.g. communication, virtual keyboards.
I'm intereted in playing games this way, but I guess my eyes might ache if I play too much lol.
And what's more? What about Brain Waves? Right, it is possible too.
Head Games: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves
By the end of this year,
San Francisco鈥揵ased Emotiv's sensor-laden EPOC headset will enable gamers to use their own brain activity to interact with the virtual worlds where they play. The $299 headset's 14 strategically placed head sensors are at the ends of what look like stretched, plastic fingers that detect patterns produced by the
brain's electrical activity. These
neural signals are then narrowed down and interpreted in 30 possible ways as real-time intentions, emotions or facial expressions that are reflected in virtual world characters and actions in a way that a joystick or other type of controller could not hope to match.
And there's another project about play games with brain waves:
OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator Lets You Play Games with Your Mind Like Emotiv's
Project Epoc, OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator turns your brain into a video game controller. The headband's neural sensors are located up front, reading your neural activity the same way that an electrocardiograph reads your heart (though fortunately the NIA doesn't require you to lube up before putting the headband on).
These techniques are not that perfect now, but at least we take the first step already.
So, we can expect a new period of game playing in future, that we drop keyboard and mouse, just use your mind!
