Are mind-controlled games as big as the Kinect? Can brainwave headsets read your mind? Can we use mind-controlled gaming for purposes in addition to entertainment? Is there big money for investors? Arctic Startup turned to us for answers. Read on:
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Many people who can’t read German have asked us to provide an English translation of a recent interview with our CEO in WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s foremost economic weekly magazine. We are happy to oblige (with help from Google Translate)!
The original article can be found here.
Mind-Controlled Games Are a Billion-Dollar Market
– by Michael Brächer –
U.S. researcher Deepa Iyengar is designing computer games for mobile phones which are controlled by mind power. This is a fun, new opening in the market for the results of high-tech brain research.
(Deepa Iyengar is a cofounder and CEO of the Icelandic software company MindGames. She is a 39-year-old American who studied brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)
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WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s leading economic weekly, interviewed MindGames CEO Deepa Iyengar recently about the state-of-the-art in brain-computer interfaces, mind-controlled mobile software, and mind-controlled videogaming.
Check out the article (in German) here!
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“Jedis, not Cylons: Changing the relationship between humanity and technology”. Deepa Iyengar, co-founder and CEO at MindGames, talks about people’s relationship with technology and where it could be heading.
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Nordic Innovation magazine covered MindGames as part of its “Playing With Innovation” issue.
Control the game with your mind
Currently, if you want to control a game with your mind, you must be a Jedi-in-training, who learns to control what happens in the game by changing the level of your relaxation and concentration. This state of affairs is perfect as far as MindGames, an Icelandic startup, is concerned.
“When you play our games, you should not only be having fun, but also learning how to relax and concentrate when you want to – because that’s what it takes to win, in our games and in life,” says Deepa Iyengar, co-founder and CEO.
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