Brain-Computer Interfaces: One Possible Future for How We Play

Look at me, Owen

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We've already got companies trying basic psychological manipulation tricks to extract more money out of people. You know damn well this is going to lead to root access to those mechanisms. As cool and useful as these kinds of technologies are (and they truly are), we all know how twill play out long term.

This goes beyond vidya. Potentially something to mind uploading.

So here's where our "feed" begins to take shape

The presenter is well meaning but the implications of this proposed technology are horrifying. I am sorry but my thoughts and feelings are my own. With this technology you could psychologically manipulate someone in a variety of ways. What is worse is that you would have access to information via body queues that even a person wouldn't know consciously. Make a game harder on the fly to motivate people to play more than tone it back while they are frustrated so they play more. Show the player addition content (loot boxes, deals or outside advertisements) and test their how they react to get the best monetization out of the player. Once you start dealing with physical reactions to stimuli and apply content dynamically to respond to that you can really push addiction models.

This talk didn't have much substance. An interesting topic bogged down by obvious, surface-level questions and "But wouldn't it be neat if?"

Yes, more data in playtesting = more data in playtesting. So why isn't there any examples of them trying to collect data in playtesting? They have adaptive difficulty games, they have the hardware, the researchers, the affective analysis.

Yes, more data during gameplay means you can adapt the gameplay to new data. So why was there one throw away slide on the most trivial implementation of this tech? It wasn't even contributing anything new since arousal feedback loops have been used in "meditation" games from Walmart for years.

It's just sad it asked so many trivial questions. We already have VR horror games which use heart rate for adaptive gameplay; that's not a question you need to ask. We have eye tracking for new input methods, that's not a sophisticated question.

I guess this is just a watcher beware of you expect anything more than surface level speculation from this talk. I've researched AI assisted creativity enhancement and untraditional modal input for games, so these might be novel questions for people who aren't as involved in this side of things, but if you have any experience in this the talk isn't worth your time.

Of course this sounds very cool, but it's a VERY slippery slope. This kind of stuff could perhaps also be used to create more addictive behavior, to manipulate you to spend money, it could be used to sell your neural data to advertisers or political interests. Maybe it could even subtly compel you to buy unrelated products or vote differently. We keep being sold convenience in return for reduced privacy - carrying phones that can be tracked, posting on sites that sell our data, we probably should be pretty hesitant about allowing machines to read or even influence our minds, because even if it starts off occasional, it will likely become habitual, and before you know it someone will potentially have access to our brains much of the time, perhaps permanently, which should be a scary though. The most important questions to ask is not how much fun this would be, but rather how we'd attempt to regulate it.

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The constant chin/mouth touching is captivating in a bad way. I will never use tech like this except to just try it out, it's too invasive.

No, sorry, that's a massive invasion of privacy, even if it means less dynamic gameplay, spying on someone's mental state and thoughts when they're playing a game is fucking disgusting, the only thing it should be tracking is movement signals for the controlls

Comments section: Paranoia intensifies

I will never agree to ever have either external and certainly not internal interface directly to my brain no matter the potential benefits

REALLY????? You make a talk for entertainment applications???? The least interesting aspect of BCI's!

Yup, we're screwed

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Really interesting talk. Thank you!

Sign me up, I’m ready to slay some dragons😂

Alot of these BCI videos have comments disabled for some strange reason.

they're reaching 🙄

Future Nuralink support 😏

NANO MAFIA

GDC create the world in 7days

i hope this won´t take to long to happen

would be great, not just for games but 3d modeling and animation. this would improve my workflow by a lot.
and allow disabled people to enjoy a wider variety of videogames. even comunicate more effectively with others. this technology is a must. imagine prostetics tech handled with controllers like this, we have currently very early versions of these and they are FUCKING AMAZING right now. imagine with a more advanced version.

I really, really hope this BCI technology is well regulated to prevent abuse of being able to make you feel certain things and such. This is honestly scarier than it is exciting.

its a Hot product but i'm already sweating with mine ..will it get worse?they might as well think about a refrigerant of some kind

BCI is our future 🌀🔮🌀

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Valve is putting this in their next vr headset. Gabe has already alluded to this on multiple occasions. By 2030 this is gonna be a huge thing.

Alienswarm...You won't last five minutes.

this tech needs to be banned there usein it to torture people 24/7 with voice to skull aka remote nueral monitoring

The possibilities that BCI might bring us are quite exciting! Can't wait to see what kind of apps could be developed for this if this ever enters the general market. GPS navigation, note taking, organization and communication could be supercharged if we ever reach that level!

This has no use beyond measuring play testers excitement levels... And Dota is an teenage elitist basketball court, no one looks at trees wonderfully

It’s like everything you said is both amazing for games and new ways to torture people!

Both exciting and scary, definitely possible for such systems to be infected with malware which could make people feel agonizing pain or make them stuck in loops.

If Gabe himself asked me I'd let him do whatever he wants to my brain.

Is it possible to be set up with a bci or brain to brain without consent or contact?
I'm desperate for some answers.
It started by me hearing something I knew was directed towards me, like audio playing in the background of music, or in the car, work etc. But no matter what I did, it didn't go away. Then I saw something about voice to skull and it started making sense, but made things way worse knowing someone could have access to my thoughts, and that caused my mind to start thinking terrible intrusive thoughts and each time, I can hear a reaction. It feels 100% like I've been brainwashed. I've went so many places for help. But all professionals say it's psychosis. But I know in my gut it's these people. They keep saying "we know everything you ever did, every place you took something from when I was using" etc. The thoughts are the worst part, absolutely horrific