The future of gaming is all in the mind
This article on CNN.com is talking about the future in videogames. It is referring to the technology that videogames use; today we operate videogames with controllers. What the new technology will bring is the ability to operate videogames by only using our minds. This technology is right around the corner.
In this article, President and co-founder of Emotiv Systems Tan Le, said that they have this new technology called EPOC headset. It is the first interactive brain computer interface. Tan Le’s company has claimed that this new technology has already mastered the ability to process the brain’s thoughts and turn them into functions on a videogame.
They say this new technology will be similar to the technology seen in such movies as, The Matrix, Star Trax, and Star Wars. This is very exciting information, we will be able to use this not only for videogames but as well for some medical purposes. They say this technology will have the ability to put us in an all-virtual world. This is very crazy to think that in the near future we will be able to interact with our friends through the Internet just with our minds while sitting on our couches. There are also very scary possibilities with this new technology, such as hackers. "So add that up: a wireless, remote, brain reading/writing device that can scan, interpret, and communicate with someone across the room, without them even knowing it. Connect that to the Internet... and talk about brainwashing possibilities. What if some hacker could figure out how to write viruses to people's brains? It's actually a little scary." This is why this technology is going to take awhile to come out, because they need to make sure it is perfect or as close as possible.
In the end this new technology is very exciting and very scary at the same time. It is bound to come out regardless in the future. So just prepare yourself for it. That is the only advice I can give you.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/08/Futureofgaming/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/08/Futureofgaming/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto
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