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Use your brain...to control games!
« on: April 03, 2010, 03:12 AM »
This is utterly amazing!

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PC Gaming will never be the same.

The nia™ PC Game Controller frees your hands from commonly used game controls to experience true game immersion. By translating facial expressions, eye movements and concentrated brainwave activity into PC game keyboard and mouse controls, nia opens new.

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Use nia with any PC game – shooter, role play, virtual worlds, racing and many more. Use pre-configured nia profiles to start playing popular PC games within minutes. Tweak or create your own nia profiles to create movements and actions that can be near-impossible using traditional input devices.

Features:
Improve game play with your favorite games within minutes
Create complex game actions not previously possible
Eliminates complex keyboard strokes and mouse clicks
Heightens attention and response for intense games
Includes pre-configured and customizable profiles for use with any PC game

Includes:
nia Headband
nia Amplifier
Installation Manual
Software CD
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http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/ocz_peripherals/nia-neural_impulse_actuator

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Re: Use your brain...to control games!
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 03:17 AM »
yes i realize, this is not a brand new system, but i must of been living under a rock not too have seen this before now!

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Re: Use your brain...to control games!
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 02:21 PM »
Ummm from what I've read this really is not that useful. There's really to much interference from the subconscious mind to control a video game effectivelly by micro-muscle movements.
I would compare it to dragon naturally speaking- theoretically awesome idea. I mean you do speak faster than you write, but in practice it is still better to use the keyboard, because the recognition software needs training, and it really isn't that accurate. (At least my version wasn't, it never transcribed what it should).

But if you don't have arms or legs (to use a keyboard for the feet) I guess this is the best way for you to play left 4 dead 2 or GTA 4.
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