Microsoft patents muscle-control tech

Exactly what "muscles" can this thing sense?............. Oh the possibilities.......oh...oh.....oh

now this is scary... i enjoys my 360 and porn, i don't think this device is for me....

...intriguing

This looks all right... at least its a better idea than that guy who replaced rumble technology with electrodes taped to your body... I REALLY do not want to see Air Guitar Hero though...

Johnny Lee is the one who did the 3D Wii hack

hoo-boy and I thought it was tough keeping my two NES controller cords untangled. I pity the the children of the future.

Just another way for Skynet to convert us into terminators! ;)

Interesting, but I'm more interested in seeing this technology applied to prosthetics.

That is pretty freaking Awsome!! It may have you looking like a weirdo and may cause some issues in when doing certain things..... YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!! Cooking!

@tig1979, I think its more likely that when (and if) this makes it into the public domain, it will more likely be in the form of a wrist band type device.

The future is Sonys motion controller, now thats new advanced technology. JK Being developed by Microsoft, the University of Washington, and the University of Toronto, that sounds pretty cool.

yeah WTF happened to natal???

Although a good idea, i dunno if i could arsed spending 3 hours getting ready to play a game, if it came as a top or something you just put on fair enough, but putting all those pads everywhere would be too mch of a hassle

If the games are half as exciting as that video....

I "modded" a Wiimote and Nunchuck to worse kind of like that. Turned it into a glove that kicked serious a$$. At the time I had no camera of any kind (It was also only good for games like RE4 and Metroid Prime) and then ended up selling my Wii and all peripherals to save my cat from dying (Had no money).

Ugh, I'll stick with my TV thank you very much, I don't want to relive the virtual boy days.

One step closer to Virtual Reality...

Wii FOR LIFE..LOL..what am i saying...

whoa that would make some games SOO much easier

Yeah I can see that for sure. I just meant that they need to advance the technology, more specifically the way the sensors attach, before this really means anything since no one is going to want to set up all of those sensors on their arm just to play Rock Band without a controller.

Bagrm. Probably in the beginning, yeah, but if the technology takes hold and advances, I'm sure five year olds will be operating this sort of thing no prob.

Wow. Anyone else watch that youtube video and think of the film Johnny Nemonic? Who knows, mebby this is the first step down the road of a control system for some kind of cyberspace...

nice technology i hope they used this technology to make mechs , i want a battle suit

I can see it now, tea bagging in the future. lol

Sounds like a neat tech, even if I doubt it will be usable/perfected by the time Quetzalcoatl rolls around, bringin the end of the world and all. I wonder what would happen when you sneeze or have muscle twitches. Calibration will take on all new challenges, haha. Oh my, more I think about it, the neater it would be, but the less practical it is.

Cool proof of concept. Problem is that all of those sensors probably need to be placed at exact locations on the arm so they can read the correct muscle tension to determine which finger moved. I think we wont see something like this for a while, and it seems to be better suited for an application besides games.

A good backbone for future innovators, however I don't see this coming around until the next decade when graphics have topped out and companies look towards creating a more submersive experience than what we now know as controllers.

So who else noticed that he's not actually controlling the guitar hero stuff on screen? You can clearly see that around 1:06, the red button is lit up while he's still pressing what should be the green. Discuss

i dunno about this one Microsoft.

Interesting, maybe this could work with natal... but I think we're a ways off from all of this. Nonetheless, a step in the right direction I suppose.

{quote} jadefury27 Posted Jan 5, 2010 12:53 pm PT Here's an intresting idea...Make better games. everybody's so stuck on the idea of motion control. if people need things like this to get some form of exercise then they have problems. just work on making better games people. leave the gimmicks to nintendo.{/quote} I couldnt have said it any better then this!!!

Here's an intresting idea...Make better games. everybody's so stuck on the idea of motion control. if people need things like this to get some form of exercise then they have problems. just work on making better games people. leave the gimmicks to nintendo.

So, it's a controller on your arm? What's the point, exactly?

what if i have no muscle from playing games all day long and i get it and it don't work for me.

I cant lie that SICK! I hope Microsoft will share that technology or Sony and Nintedo will have to make some better.

It blows my mind that some of you idiots are even able to turn on your computers...

Microsoft tries so hard.... While Nintendo and Sony just breathe easy and do them and still succeed better!

I rather see guitar hero become extinct real talk.

Air Guitar lol!! I'm sorry. I rather play with my regular controllers.

Wow... for the nerds complaining. Why the heck do you always whine and complain every time a company pushes tech foward? You sound like a bunch of old men in the 70's complaining about those damn fangled computers.

They are not getting lazier about finding ridiculous way to play games.

People are getting lazier and lazier...

I don't think you nerds are getting this. They aren't patenting this to replace the controller, it has a million uses and COULD be used for gaming. Microsoft isn't a gaming only company.

what next, a way to control your Xbox with your mind, and being able to telepathically threaten it if it even thinks about giving you the Red Ring of Death

can you just hook my mind into a machine please and let the machine control me?

Operating system that fail to operate...

TripSe7en good one nicee :PPP

I did not understand a word the guy in the video said :D

this looks really, really cool. If it could make it on time on par with Natal it would make it considerably better. But I hope the final gadget will be less cumbersome.

can you imagine the implications this will have on the porn industry?