‘The Sky is the Limit’: Twitch’s PerriKaryal on The Evolution of ‘Mind Control’ Gaming

PerriKaryal surfaced at DreamHack Stockholm, and for a few minutes, she sat down with Gaming World Media’s Jake Lucky to discuss the origins, and more importantly, the future of her thing. For a while, Perri has been creating top-tier content by using an EEG device that translates her brain activity into game-based inputs.

In the last few months, she has beaten Elden Ring’s hardest boss using nothing but her brainwaves, and recently, she tried to master FPS titles using her EEG-powered abilities. At DreamHack, she spoke about where it all goes from here.

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‘More and More Complicated’

As if it didn’t sound impressive enough, Perri endeavours to make her ‘mind control’ gaming efforts more complex. While speaking to Jake Lucky at DreamHack Stockholm, she explained:

Currently, I’m just trying to get more and more complicated, so doing things like World of Warcraftg with all of these different inputs and finding ways to do that. I’m combining multiple EEGs, literally wearing more than one at the same time, to keep adding more and more commands.

I’m trying to play games just with mind control. Currently, I use mind control for buttons on a virtual Xbox controller, but then gyro and eye-tracking for the joysticks, and I’m trying to completely banish that.

Perri explained to Jake that her next conquest is a psychic-only Pokémon run using just mind control.

On the topic of the tech ever making it into the mainstream, Perri – who has a Master’s in Psychology – admitted that the technology is a little archaic and inaccurate, but the next step could involve implants. In the vein of Musk’s Neuralink technology, an implant would circumvent the need to wear multiple devices to use your brainwaves to play games.

The immediate future, Perri hopes, looks positive for the development of this technology. Jake asked her where she thinks this will go in the next ‘decade-plus’:

I think just building super, super immersive gaming rigs, but then also for everything. Recently, I controlled robot arms with mind control, which was very cool. Hopefully, it gets to the stage where it can help people with accessibility issues. Currently, the tech is so hard to use that it’s not really a viable solution.

If it can get to the stage where it’s actually helpful, and super immersive, and then you can create games that are around it. I think the possibilities are infinite.

The sky’s the limit.

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