Games shaped by brain-waves on the horizon

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Video games with action dictated by brain waves will be available by the end of the year, according to a Silicon Valley company that has created low-cost headsets.

A man dressed as Darth Vader from the "Star Wars" film series demonstrated the NeuroSky invention on Thursday by turning his toy light saber on and off at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco without pushing a button.

"It's like the Force," he said, referring to the film premise that unseen energy could be tapped and channeled by the mind.

The credit actually goes to sensors that gauge people's moods by measuring brain wave emissions, according to NeuroSky spokesman Greg Hyver.

Readings are translated into video game action by computer software, Hyver said....