Mind-reading headsets will change your brain



In the coming months, cheap headsets that let you control technology with the electrical signals generated by your firing neurons will go on sale to the general public. Our relationship with technology – and our brains – will never be the same again.

…I don’t think the main use in games will be control, as joysticks and pads do a decent job of this already. Also, I think it might be tiresome to make your mind think a certain way just to control something. But detecting mood might serve to adjust facial expressions of online avatars. Also, having the game respond to one’s emotions might draw one further into the game as there will be in game benefit to letting yourself actually feel emotions in response to game scenarios. Imagine non player characters reacting to your emotions the way a real person might react to your body language….

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Mind-reading headsets will change your brain

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