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Thats basically psychic powers summed up, but what happens when you bring a game into the equation...
Imagine a game where there was no need for having your finger positioned above the game pad, waiting for the perfect moment. No rapid finger bashing, where your fingers turn red, then white, and blister and bleed...
This could be done using a direct connection to the mind. Sounds far off, but it actually isn't, its a lot more developed than you think. Already people are having chips implanted in them, tiny circuits sending out pulses to let others know there location. But using this technology could be to the benefit of the gaming industry, and us the gamers. You could simply have a chip implanted in your brain, by which you could send out pulses (your thought waves) which a computer could reconise and translate for you, could make playing a game more easier for you. Or if you don't want gismos inside of you (ladies i know how you feel) then simply there could be a connection using something like a helmet to the head, which could sense your thoughts and various waves, and translate them to inputs.
This could be used for example, on games like tekken and mortal kombat, where two humans literally go matrix fighting style and go at the fastest there mind can handle. You could therotically make your own moves up, and the computer would put them on the screen, which would add a whole new style to fighting games. But of course there would have to be limits, because we all know that some clever cloggs will think off an explosion or nuclear blast to kill the opponent, which would be too excessive. So there would be some rules and boundrys, but as far as creating your own moves goes, the mind is the the limit.
And remember, think before you play...
We can speculate over the development of the rumoured PlayStation 3, we can laugh over the idea of a GameSphere and we can giggle insanely over the thought of a Ybox. Whatever, none of us actually knows what’s coming next.
So, let’s use our imaginations.
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music plays*
To be honest, anything could happen next. We don’t know what kind of technical developments the people at Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are up to. But, in a perfect world, here is what I’d like to happen...
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One idea I’ve always enjoyed entertaining is that of "Dream Gaming".
No, not a Pick’n’Mix kind of thing, but games being played in your dreams. Let me explain:
When you sleep, you get hooked up to a machine, this machine taps the sub-conscious nerves that fire impulses to and from the brain which makes you dream, and manipulates them so you get put into a certain environment. This could be anything... A racetrack for racing games, A strange landscape for adventure games, a footy pitch for football games, anywhere really for FPS’...
The possibilities are endless.
Anyway, before you go to sleep you choose the game. Then, when you fall asleep the machine makes you dream you are in that certain landscape. Then, you just play!
The nerve impulses detect what you want to do in the dream and so you make that movement. Be it to combat roll, fire, run or just to simply walk forward. Whatever your sub-conscious mind thinks, that’s what happens.
Then, when you finish dreaming, the machine scans your brain and instantly saves the point that you got to.
How cool would this be?! Dream Gaming, not only would you have fun playing games, you wouldn’t stay up all night playing them! And do you know how much play you’d get out of it? Well that all depends on how long you sleep and how many R.E.M cycles you go through in one night. But in theory, the more you sleep, the more you dream, the more you play!
I really love the thought of playing games in your sleep; it’d give me a reason to go to bed at night anyway!
*Soothing neo-psychedelic music ends*
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Well, that’s it from me.
RBS
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She said it's only in my head. She said, Shhh, I know, it's only in my head.
Thats basically psychic powers summed up, but what happens when you bring a game into the equation...
Imagine a game where there was no need for having your finger positioned above the game pad, waiting for the perfect moment. No rapid finger bashing, where your fingers turn red, then white, and blister and bleed...
This could be done using a direct connection to the mind. Sounds far off, but it actually isn't, its a lot more developed than you think. Already people are having chips implanted in them, tiny circuits sending out pulses to let others know there location. But using this technology could be to the benefit of the gaming industry, and us the gamers. You could simply have a chip implanted in your brain, by which you could send out pulses (your thought waves) which a computer could reconise and translate for you, could make playing a game more easier for you. Or if you don't want gismos inside of you (ladies i know how you feel) then simply there could be a connection using something like a helmet to the head, which could sense your thoughts and various waves, and translate them to inputs.
This could be used for example, on games like tekken and mortal kombat, where two humans literally go matrix fighting style and go at the fastest there mind can handle. You could therotically make your own moves up, and the computer would put them on the screen, which would add a whole new style to fighting games. But of course there would have to be limits, because we all know that some clever cloggs will think off an explosion or nuclear blast to kill the opponent, which would be too excessive. So there would be some rules and boundrys, but as far as creating your own moves goes, the mind is the the limit.
And remember, think before you play...