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In a very cool, yet creepy step towards advancing BCI technology (brain-computer interface), researchers at the Keio University Biomedical Engineering Laboratory have developed a system that allows users to control their Second Life avatars with their mind. The way that it works is that the user thinks about moving their arms or their legs or turning left or right. These brain wave signals will get picked up and interpreted by an electronic headpiece that monitors the activity that occurs in the motor cortex of the brain. The program then converts this information into a signal that Second Life understands, which results in the user's avatar moving in the virtual world.

Apparently, this isn't the first mind control interactive experience...



But it is certainly a more inspiring example.



Keio’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine hopes that this will one day lead to helping people with serious physical impairments by giving them an engaging new way to communicate and train their brain in the virtual world.

Marta Strickland