British streamer Perrikaryal has used an EEG headset to play games better than some of us can manage with a joypad.
While holding her hands to her chin, to prove that she’s not using her keyboard or mouse, Perrikaryal dodges swords in Elden Ring and shoots down enemies in Halo.
We’ve seen Elden Ring beaten by a controller made of bananas before, as well as a goldfish and a dance pad. Everything from a guitar to a drumkit and bongos has been used before but never… the power of your mind.
With the use of an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset connected to her PC, Perrikaryal has found a way to use her thoughts to take on games in proper Jedi fashion, and it actually works.
During a recent stream, the psychology graduate explained that she uses her head and eyes as two separate joysticks. Her head moves the character and her eyes move the crosshair.
Simple enough, right? Well, she then describes how she uses the other buttons, like attacking and jumping:
‘I’m tilting my head to move the character and I’m looking around the screen to move the eye tracker. But I’m using any buttons and triggers with mind control.’
Essentially what that means is she has to think a certain thought to create a certain brainwave, that then goes through the EEG headset and into the game.
In a YouTube video she further explained that in some games she uses the thought of a plate spinning to the tune of pop classic, You Spin Me Round as an attack mechanism. To dodge attacks while playing, she thinks of pushing something heavy.
It doesn’t always work, though. At times she’s staring her opponent down without being able to fire. Or the attack is a bit too late. But sometimes it works perfectly as she mows her enemy down with the power of thought.
Later in the video, Perrikaryal concedes that it’s still a work in progress but she’s planning on adding more mental commands, expanding on the gyroscope controls, and incorporating facial expressions and motion recognition, to better slay dragons in The Lands Between.
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