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On October 9th or 10th we will be seeing a brainwave controlled video game at the Tokyo Game Show taking place in Makuhari, Japan. This is a collaboration between NeuroSky, a wearable bio-sensor manufacturer, and Square Enix, a well known video game developer. The headset will be the MindSet, which has two earmuff like components as well as one electrode at the user’s forehead.

The headset will monitor the EEG data (brainwave information) to track the user’s concentration or relaxation in order to perform certain actions within the game. Similar games in the future may employ more complicated actions which will be possible through “calibration” of having the user think a certain action and associating it with more specific EEG data.

[Business Wire]