Next Generation Game Controllers

[dlevere]

Engineers at the University of Utah have designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate various types of movement.

'We have developed feedback modes that enhance immersiveness and realism for gaming scenarios such as collision, recoil from a gun, the feeling of being pushed by ocean waves or crawling prone in a first-person shooter game,' said the lead researcher on the project, adding he hoped the technology would be adopted in the next generation of gaming consoles.'

[ReyVGM]

That will totally not be used a game controller...

[Pyriel]

I know our neurological system can be faked out pretty easily at times, but I imagine you'd have to game in a closed-off area to feel the sensation of being on a boat when something pushes on your thumb.

[Helder]

When will they make something like the kinect but for your brain lol, imagine you think of the actions and the game responds to them. Maybe in the next decade or so it might be possible.