 The birth of Direct Neural Interface..., VIA SPACE INVADERS! |
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 21-May 06 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 8,581  |
Hey all, just spotted this on Slashdot...
SPACE INVADERS! If there's a more perfect example of modern DNI, I don't know what it is. Now, can I get hooked up with one of those systems? :P |
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Oct 10 2006, 08:55 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Not to steal your thunder or to diminish the impact of how cool that is, but researchers and scientists had people playing Pong with a brain-surface microchip a year or two back. The awesome thing about that at the time is that 9/10 of their subjects had learned to do it in a very short amount of time (in minutes, can't recall the exact number). I used to have the article saved as "datajack precursor", so I'll see if I can find it later.
I think an important difference here is that in something like Space Invaders, you're not only executing "movement" commands, but you're executing the command to fire as well. I'm not sure what the significance of that is, but it seems like a big deal to me. |
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Oct 10 2006, 10:11 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 6,599 |
also not to steal your thunder, check out this article i posted to the news page in July about a guy who can open/read email, use MS Paint, control a television or a limb and more using a chip in his brain...
BrainGate News Article on Dumpshock |
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Oct 11 2006, 02:00 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Awesome. I had missed that one. Thanks Craig.
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Oct 13 2006, 01:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 305 Joined: 2-March 03 Member No.: 4,188 |
I think more applications and more success in these types of areas are a good idea.
Being able to imagine your way through a video game would be nice. I don't know how many times I've made Lara Croft fall into a chasm even though I wanted her to walk straight. |
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Oct 13 2006, 05:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 6,599 |
i would be afraid of this...using your 'real' motor functions to do things in a game? like thinking about walking forward and your character does - or think about shooting someone in the game and your character does.... i think my brain would begin to confuse the real world with the game..... i already do that when i play morrowind for too long - i'll see a plant IRL and for a split-second i'll think i need to pick it's leaves - no kidding! :silly: |
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Oct 14 2006, 05:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 305 Joined: 2-March 03 Member No.: 4,188 |
That would be the same thing that we do while dreaming. We shut off the input to the muscles w/o shutting off the brain parts controlling movement.
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Oct 15 2006, 12:20 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 6,599 |
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Nov 11 2006, 05:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 160 Joined: 16-August 03 Member No.: 5,501 |
hope there isnt a technical problem that keeps the muscles turned off after you turn off the computer :(
that being said, this technology is right up there with imersive hologram enviroments and dynamic gravity fields on my christmas list. |
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Nov 11 2006, 06:36 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I am a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I secretly regret not being paralyzed or otherwise disabled enough to be used as a test subject for these sorts of things. Not enough that I'd actually prefer it, but it's still there. ~J |
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Nov 16 2006, 06:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 13-March 06 From: dusty Mexican borderlands Member No.: 8,372 |
I keep eyeing the chainsaw in the garage, m'self. |
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