so basically now instead of typing and not having a real life they can just think like in real life but still not have one.

ooh the irony

this has applications which will go way beyond simple control of mmorpg's; I am almost frightened to think of the possibility of thought-controlled powered wheelchairs....

'Psychically impaired'? So it'd help out Miss Cleo, huh?

Bummer. Starchaser beat me to that joke.

matrix comes to my mind...
remember all those humans connected to a "second life" ?...

creepy.

@hazaelox:
I was thinking the same thing, we're one step closer to being batteries.

Wow - some people can't even get their brains to work in real life.

I want it for Halo.

@If Only This Was Fleshbot...: lol, my wheelchair would always be humping my girlfriend xD that could be a real problem lol :D

gives me the creeps! imagine life with a "second life"

Anyone read Joe Hadleman's "Forever Peace"? Yep, thats where this is going.

I do not begrudge the physically impaired, but i pity the poor avatar (in second life) belonging to the person with multiple personalities, and schizophrenia in 'real life'. Just imagine: personality A thinks, "Left foot forward!", as personality C thinks, "Back-up!", and personality F cries, "Flee, flee!!!" Danger, Danger, auto-destruct engaged!

@lunarstreaker: funniest... comment... EVER.

by COOLPENGWN:
I want it for Halo.

You sure about that? I heard that if your avatar dies while you're wearing this thing, you die too.

Since the system is limited to basic actions, there are plans to improve the BCI for more elaborate movements

But everyone will still just boink with poseballs anyway.

--Chiaroscuro Mounier @ SL

Cyber hacking! You remember on cowboy bebop.... ah, never mind.

i call bs. everybody knows that no one on second life has a brain.

wasnt that Dr. Emanuel Lagos in Snow Crash or whats his name in a William Gibson novel?

the guy just ended up permanently wired in and his body ceased to exist cept on life support in the real world?

I've never tried Second Life but I've always wondered, can you own a computer in Second Life, and if so, can you use that computer to play Third Life?

@Navin R Johnson: Yes, but then everybody rags on you and says that instead of spending all that time in Third Life you should focus on getting a real Second Life first.

Did anyone see the Matrix?

Seriously though, I was at Time Warner today returning an old cable box, and the guy checked the serial number and just started throwing in information in his terminal, tabbing through fields, really flying through, and I thought to myself, you know if we stopped putting information into the computer systems all the systems would eventually shut down, crash, and the whole system would fail. So in a way we are already slaves to the computers, as if THEY are asking for us to put information into them instead of US asking the computers for information. The Zeitgeist is palpable... we are already in the end of days....

Ohh! Fritos!

Man I got the munchies...

I participated in a BCI study once and it was really freakin' hard just to control a single red dot moving back and forth in one dimension. Apparently handicapped people do better than most able-bodied people on these things because they have stronger incentives (i.e. "I want to walk again" versus "I'm getting paid 10 bucks and it's kinda cool").

@Navin R Johnson: Right after I stopped laughing hysterically, my brain popped.

@If Only This Was Fleshbot...: First thing I thought: Steven Hawking in a giant robot.

@Navin R Johnson:And in THAT game you're playing Fourth Life...

...cosmic...

This is not so new - I had a 'mind drive' back in the day... worked with a finger sensor. It takes a while to get used to it, but simple left-right / up-down, commands are easy to 'think'. Lots of things affect your ability to control it - water in your body, mind state, concentration level, time of day...

I wouldn't wanna hook this tech up to a car's power steering...