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Senior Member
Registered: 01-21-08
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 Hello my fellow forumaters...(lol) anyways.. I wish to have a serious discussion about the possibilty of BCIs or brain computer interfaces. I know that this is a very new technology and that we will be perfecting it in a few years. Late this year, a company is planning to release an bci helmet that will be able to synchronize with your brain waves and control a computer with... I also know that this will make the entertainment industry boom..I mean video games and movies inside your head. If you have ever heard of .hack...check it out because this popular anime contains real world ideas on how the BCI in a game would be. So if you have any thoughts on how it will affect humans or any more facts, please post... |
Senior Member
Registered: 09-28-06
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Science-fiction writers have been exploring the impact of such devices for years.
William Gibson's novels feature a well-developed entertainment industry with VR "stars" literally functioning as recording media; the user running the program experiences the same things that the star did while recording.
Of course, his invention of "cyberspace" was influential...
We already have rather primitive VR, and we are able to control computers and robots to some degree with surface brain-wave detectors. As you say, this technology will be refined over the next several years.
It's easy to predict a revolution in computer/video gaming, as well as telepresence chat and meeting rooms, (not to mention virtual naughtiness...)and simulation instruction in a variety of fields.
Another new and tech-savvy author is Charles Stross, who posits a VR gaming community that's so pervasive as to involve most of the population in one way or another.
It'll be interesting...
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Senior Member
Registered: 01-21-08
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Actually, we are not so primitive as you think...at the end of 2008, a CBI helmet will be coming out for uses on computers and maybe even the xbox 360. The only problem is that it is not a full cbi. If were a true vr world...you would shut off from the outside world while playing...I am 16 years old and have been studying the possibilities of VR helmets and CBI chips...hopefully,I may get a computer engineering and technology degree so I can revolutionize the market..and let you all send emails while thinking(lol) anyways.. anyone who views this..please post. I want to know what everyone thinks... |
Senior Member
Registered: 01-16-07
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Halfwit, got some links to the helmet you are talking about?
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Senior Member
Registered: 03-22-07
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I think the helmet he is talking about was the one featured on the main discovery site about 3 months ago. They had a little two page article about it.
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Senior Member
Registered: 11-03-06
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What I think is.... wait. I'm thinking, and posting, ahhh I must be trapped in a CBI helmet world. NOOO the matrix lives! Lol, if everything I thought about e-mailing was actualy e-mailed I'd be banned from every forum, and every e-mail group online, and likely be under investigation by the secret service.  OK CBI is intresting Halfwit, I will admit it, and it is likely going to become a very accepted and widely used tech, just like laptops, mice etc. But what do you really want people to discuss about it? It will effect humans the same way every great advance has effected humans, first it will be feared, then it will be used to kill people, then it will be accepted, and finaly it will stagnate and cause medical problems the creaters never envisioned. |
Senior Member
Registered: 09-28-06
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And where are we going to get the bandwidth? Seems to me the health risk might be minimal, as (at least as I understand it) this is essentially a passive technology. Picking up brain-wave activity on the surface of the skin and then using that to interface with the VR. Will us old bald guys get better connectivity than you hairy youths? |
Senior Member
Registered: 09-20-06
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quote: Originally posted by bikewer:
Science-fiction writers have been exploring the impact of such devices for years.
William Gibson's novels feature a well-developed entertainment industry with VR "stars" literally functioning as recording media; the user running the program experiences the same things that the star did while recording.
Of course, his invention of "cyberspace" was influential...
We already have rather primitive VR, and we are able to control computers and robots to some degree with surface brain-wave detectors. As you say, this technology will be refined over the next several years.
It's easy to predict a revolution in computer/video gaming, as well as telepresence chat and meeting rooms, (not to mention virtual naughtiness...)and simulation instruction in a variety of fields.
Another new and tech-savvy author is Charles Stross, who posits a VR gaming community that's so pervasive as to involve most of the population in one way or another.
It'll be interesting...
I've read some of William Gibson's books and they ar kind of interesting, but I don't know about cbi only because I'd be afraid of getting stuck in there forever. |
Senior Member
Registered: 01-21-08
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Here is the link to the CBI game second life... secon lifeand here is the link to the helmet... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331672,00.htmlanyways... I am writing a book(science fiction series) and wish to see what other people think of this machine and how it will impact everyday humans. Some of my ideas are that addicition to them would be to great for prolonged use and kids might not understand the difference in the game reality and real... well, reality. |
Senior Member
Registered: 01-21-08
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you know I would love to have this... I sometimes find myself to have cynical recessiveness(even though there is no physical problem with me, I dont even have low self esteem) I could lose myself in an CBI mmo rpg that leaves my physical body in a semi catotonic state... |
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