Here comes a new video game in which players move characters through a headset that monitors their brain waves.
Japanese game publisher Square Enix and American brain-wave-helmet maker NeuroSky showed off their latest joint creation at the Tokyo Game Show Thursday - a game that the player controls with his own thoughts instead of a keyboard or joysticks.
The recently introduced MindSet, from NeuroSky, is capable of interfacing to a variety of gaming platforms, including PC, console and mobile. The headset registers the current state of relaxation or concentration of players, allowing them to perform a variety of actions within the game.
Called "Judecca," the PC game is a zombie-killing first-person-shooter, though it's really just a proof of concept and not something that's going to be available to consumers anytime soon.
Japan's Keio University put similar technology to use this year to let a paralysed man take a virtual stroll on the popular Second Life website, with the machine reading what he wanted to do with his immobile legs.
Link: Fox News
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