Reuters reports that Sony has been granted a patent for technology that will theoretically send sensory experiences directly into the brain..... hmmmm I wonder what they're going to call it?  I might just pass on this tech. However you can get more info on this below.

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Television sets as the medium for playing watching movies or playing
video games may someday be a method of the past. Sony has been granted
a patent for technology that theoretically sends sensory experiences
directly into the brain, reports Reuters.

According to the patent, a pulsed ultrasonic signal is used to alter
the neural timing in the cortex. It goes on to say, "No invasive
surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view
live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."

Sony researcher Thomas Dawson was granted the patent. An
article in New Scientist magazine reports no experiments have been
conducted using the patent's theories. In the story, Niels Birbaumer,
neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told the
publication he found the patent plausible.

Any practical application of video games being transmitted into
people's brains is years off. The patent "was based on an inspiration
that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us,"
says Sony.

whew. that's painful for alot of manufacturers.

lol that and more. To be honest having something play within my brain bucket scares the heck outta me. Like I said I think I'll pass on doing the Beta Testing on this game machine.

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I am with Foxhound, I rather decide for myself what I see.

haven't been active on this site for a long time, but I hopped on and spotted this article. I wouldn't sign up for the beta, and I'm sure this direct to brain impulse stuff will spawn all types of new cancer. But hell, if they release it as an actual product in the video game industry I'm onboard. If they can make you see and hear things, they can make you feel things too. Can you imagine feeling the chilly ocean breeze and the sand squishing beneath your feet as you storm the beach in some FPS game. It would actually be first-person. As long as feeling gunshot wounds was dumbed down a bit

I don't believe in this yet, we're light years away from direct brain stimulation.

And the side effects can be disastrous...

Col.J.P. writes...
I agree with the second part. But if you have kept up with the recent discoveries in psychology and other biotech fields, you would know that there actually are methods to specifically stimulate the brain. For example: It has been proven that Coke ads have more of an effect on the brain than Pepsi ads...all they need to do now is figure out how, and they will have us buying all kinds of**** we dont need.

Yes, I am a psychologist, I know that, but those are experimental issues that are miles away from a real day to day commertial enterprise.

You need pattern to make a brain machine work for sale and you don't have them, there is too much impredictibility in this, you can make it work for one brain and have a disastrous side effect on another right by the side.

We are still children in this particular area of expertise, brain stimulation, whatever the method used, is a very dangerous thing.

Hmm, well it sounds like you know what you're talking about. So you're saying it is currently impossible to standardize a brain machine to work safely for everyone? I think I might start reading more on this topic.

Seems pretty improbable for this to be done safely....

We will have to wait and see...