EPOC Emotiv headset enables mind-control gaming
by Stevie Smith - Feb 21 2008, 15:36
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Give me a joystick any day :-|
Jim is an idiot.
This is awesome, but I don't believe it.
Do more reading about BCI then
Im skeptical about this, due to the fact that this would only be a controller, not a system. You would need a computer for it, and the games would shurrrly not be free. At the $300 price tag, i wouldn't buy it.
The emotiv EPOC sounds kewl I cant wait for it to come to South Africa it seems like something everyone can play games with because there are no complicated controls.So grandparents and adults can play games using the EPOC without alot of complications. If the EPOC is compatible with games such as the Sims2 then its worth getting because of all the clicking you have to do.
So its would be a whole lot easier to just think about the object and then the list pops up and you select things with your mind. Also the game that comes bunled with it sounds awsome I mean movings mountains with your mind I've only dreamed of tahat! The price tag is quite a bit $300 in rands is about R2400 wich is quite a bit but as a X-mas present it would be awsome!
>>Im skeptical about this, due to the fact that this would only be a controller, not a system. You would need a computer for it, and the games would shurrrly not be free. At the $300 price tag, i wouldn't buy it.
Don't be foolish. Of course it's just a controller, which comes with nothing but a driver, a development package and a demo game. Do you expect to get a whole suite of games when you buy a new mouse or keyboard?
It's important to note that Emotiv are open sourcing the development toolkits. For you as a user it means a significantly better support from the fan-base as well as compatibility with other operating systems. For the MMORPGers amoung you, it would also mean that while Blizzard might not necessarily support it officially for their flagship product, the odds are that somebody out of their 10 million subscribers will actually write a plug-in allowing you to use it.
In the end of the day, it really depends on how many people buy the Epoc. The industry won't bother supporting it if only 3% of the gamers actually own the headset. In return, the number of people buying it strongly depends on how well the headset will actually perform, which is a matter of speculation.
~~ Nick
PS: I really doubt that it will be easier to use than the mouse/keyboard interface for somebody who isn't very informatically adept, guy-above-me.
The www.thetechherald.com is cool resource, tnks, webmaster.
I am buying this not because I'm a gamer and I would like to have powers, But because this is just too cool not to get!
I agree, it would be amazing to eventually play, for example, Oblivion, Psi-Ops, or even Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 with this headset. I hope that the development of this product reaches that far. My only question is how do you create your own custom controls for a game?
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