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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 02 2019, @06:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Let's-play-Global-Thermonuclear-War! dept.

I found this today and while I'm not sure if *I'm* ready for such a thing, perhaps it's inevitable...

http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game-using-only-your-mind/

Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the University of Washington. A team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only their minds.

In BrainNet, three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface. This is the first demonstration of two things: a brain-to-brain network of more than two people, and a person being able to both receive and send information to others using only their brain. The team published its results April 16 in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, though this research previously attracted media attention after the researchers posted it [in] September to the preprint site arXiv.

There are numerous other links in the article to check out. The tech is certainly experimental but so were light bulbs at one time...


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @10:31PM (#862557)

    Ah, that's better [youtube.com].