The startup Neurable, in collaboration with Estudiofuture, has developed a game in which you don't need to use a controller or even your body - you only have to control your thoughts!
A game called Awakening was announced ahead of the SIGGRAPH 2017 computer graphics conference. The release will take place, presumably in 2018.
In its plot, the game is similar to the American TV series Stranger Things: you play as a child forcibly held in a state scientific laboratory; it turns out that the experiments carried out on the game character endowed him with telekinetic abilities; and you need to use these superpowers in order to eventually be released from prison.
The principle of operation of the device is as follows: a wire from Neurable is connected to the HTC Vive helmet and uses several electrodes located at special points - they detect ERP brain signals (evoked potentials associated with events). These small electrical changes in the brain are associated with movement, sensory experiences, and thoughts.
The neurocomputer interface (NCI), first used in a computer game, finds much wider application - for example, in neurobiological research or to help patients with locked-in person syndrome (such a person, due to tetraplegia and paralysis of the facial muscles, cannot adequately respond to external stimuli) … At the same time, as neuroscientists note, NKI does not work in all people: this is due to the fact that our brain is extremely complex.