Thursday, September 25, 2008

OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator

OCZ's site

"Translate electrical biosignals of your body directly into computer commands and take advantage of total immersion into game play"


from Techreport.com review:

"The NIA software lists eight different inputs in total. The bulk of those inputs are made up by a "muscle" input that tracks facial muscle tension (largely from jaw and eyebrow muscles) and a "glance" control that tracks lateral eye movement. Six brain-wave inputs—three for alpha waves and three for beta waves—fill out the neural control aspect of the NIA. This post by Dr. Schuette suggests alpha waves correspond to aggression and that beta waves can correspond to pain management. For instance, one can trigger the Alpha 2 meter by thinking of an expletive. Schuette told us he successfully used this method to get his character to jump in a game, but I could never get this to work myself."

This reminds me of voice recognition, it sounds like a little bit of a rocky start, but in the future, it should be able to recognize more and more.

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