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–based 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 a
