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It’s a different approach to adrenalin-driven games such as Wip3out or GT3, but it seems Medialab Europe may have touched upon an interesting use of video games. Inspired by the effects of listening to an Enya album, Dublin developers of Medialab are building games that encourage their players to succeed by becoming relaxed and calm.
One game in development, a two-player dragon racing game, uses two electrodes attached to a player’s fingers and as the person relaxes, their dragon moves faster.
As one of the developers explains ""As you relax, your dragon will walk, then run and then fly... If you can get it to fly, it means you have got into a nice relaxed state... The technology is trying to make decisions to improve or enhance your state of mind,".
I suppose anything is worth a shot if the alternative was listening to an Enya album...
Posted 10 years ago
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phil · 10 years ago
This is so funny! First one to fall asleep wins - only you won’t realise it. ;)
Mal Ross · www · 10 years ago