Imperial student shows how neurotechnology works. (Credit: Image courtesy of Imperial College London)
Another novel and breakthrough device has been developed to help the physically disabled people play "pong" for the first time, without having to use the arms or the legs.
Pong is one game that really pushes a player to move in sync with the ball's movement. Although playing Pong as a video game won't need your body to move vigorously, but you still need to use your arms. But how about our physically disabled friends who cannot use both?
Well, that was the challenge taken by the students, from Imperial College London. The student researchers have used an open source game called 'Pong', where a player moves a virtual bat to strike a ball as it bounces around the screen using his own eye.
The game is played by wearing a special pair of glasses having an infrared light and a tiny webcam mounted on the glasses to record the movement of one eye.
The webcam is connected to a mobile device or laptop where a computer program synchronizes the player's eye movements to the game.
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