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NeuroSky, the company that helped make that MindFlex game that was so popular last year, made an appearance at the 2010 Game Developers Conference to show off its stuff. Primarily, NeuroSky is there to show off the MindSet Wave and its application and iPhone developer programs.

The MindSet Wave is NeuroSky’s latest brainwave game controller, and follows in the footsteps of the already available MindSet. It is a headset you wear on your head, and use to control various MindSet Wave compatible games. It’ll be out before Winter, 2010 and cost somewhere between $49 and $99. To get a better idea of what it’ll be like by looking at the previous model, the MindSet, a PC and Mac controller that comes with a NeuroBoy game, a CD with various programs that work with the device, a brainwave visualizer so you can see your mind at work and the MindSet Development Tools so you can make your own games. The original MindSet is more expensive though, costing $199.

Aside from the MindSet Wave, there are also game demos from other developers there showing how NeuroSky’s brainwave reading technology can be used to enhance the gaming experience. Once such game is Mind Invaders, which was mentioned and tested by Siliconera. It’s a Wii game which uses what sounds like a MindSet headset to play a shooting game. Your brain powers the laser beam which you then use to defeat aliens that will appear on the screen.

NeuroSky also took advantage of GDC 2010 to show off some of the developer programs people could use to make games and applications that would use the MindSet or MindSet Wave, and some of the technologies that can be used in games. For example, both the Application Developer Program and iPhone BCI Developer Program were on display, and some technologies that could be used in games included a Blink Capture that measures eyeblinks to perform actions and a Sync Meter that allows people to compare brainwaves of people while performing similar activities.

It really sounds like some advanced and amazing stuff! Especially the Wii game that makes use of the NeuroSky technology. I’m not so sure the iPhone applications would be as accepted though, seeing as how you’d have to walk around with a headset on while using them.

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