A group of University of Alberta students has created a video game where players use their brainwaves as the controller, opening it up to players who aren’t able to use traditional gaming systems.
The game, AlphaBlaster, allows players to control the program based on whether their brain is in either an active or resting state.
Abdel Tayem, the president of the student group NeurAlbertaTech, says the game is a proof of concept.
“Our goal with this project is to show that we can control and interface with a computer without using typical inputs like a keyboard and a mouse.”