True telepathy.
Not long ago, the game anchor Perrikaryal showed the audience a piece of surreal magic: using brain waves to control game characters and play “Elden’s Ring”.
Perrikaryal is a game streamer on Twitch and a master’s degree in psychology. Her usual live broadcast content is not limited to games, and occasionally chats with the audience about psychology. At first, she wore a brain wave monitoring device and sat in front of the computer, just wanting to observe the activity of her brain during the game. Later, she came up with the idea of using brain waves to control game characters.
Perrikaryal quickly put the idea into practice. She chose “Eirden’s Ring of Law” as an experimental game. She first used brainwave monitoring equipment to record the activity of her brain when processing game commands, and then bound specific types of brain activity to the game keys so that she could Manipulate characters by thinking.
In view of the difficulty of “Eirden’s Ring”, many viewers were not optimistic about Perrikaryal at the beginning, thinking that she might give up the game if she couldn’t even defeat a BOSS. In fact, Perrikaryal did encounter a lot of difficulties on the way of playing games with brainwaves.
The EEG acquisition device she uses during the game is the “Emotiv Epoic+” developed by the American neurotechnology company. This device uses wet electrodes and must be connected to the user’s head in a humid environment. This caused her to repeatedly adjust the equipment during the game, and constantly wet the scalp with saline to improve conductivity.
Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of equipment acquisition, the sensor is still vulnerable to interference. Every subtle body movement of Perrikaryal may disturb the bioelectricity, causing the EEG collector to miss in the process of capturing brain signals. Therefore, she not only needs to be mentally focused during the game, but also needs to keep her body stable for a long time.
“There’s often a delay between when I want to attack and when it actually happens,” she said on air. “It’s not all about the equipment, though, and there’s a limit to what we know about our own brain. Focus on it.” Strength and strengthening training can lead to faster reaction times.”
After a week of running-in and training, Perrikaryal finally defeated the grafter Greik on the live broadcast. After hearing the news, many viewers came to Perrikaryal’s live broadcast room to watch her magical magic, and the barrage changed from the initial pessimism to congratulations and encouragement.
But while the “magic” Perrikaryal demonstrated excited the onlookers, the program left much to be desired. For ordinary players, it is even more impossible to copy her operations. Perrikaryal said frankly that it is not possible to fully control the “Eirden Circle” through brain waves so far. She only trained a few simple commands in the game, and she can complete actions such as avoiding damage, attacking enemies, and casting spells. But more complex operations such as walking around and organizing backpacks still require handles to assist.
Perrikaryal set himself the goal of completely controlling the game with brain waves, but it will take a long time to work hard.
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