A Twitch streamer hooked up their brain to an EEG imaging device in order to playElden Ringby controlling the character with their mind. By attaching sensor pads to their head that pick up on the electrical signals of the brain, they were able to map the activity to correspond to controls inElden Ring.The Guinness Book of World Records has a category forbeatingDark Soulswith different controller types, and now it will have to add this to the list forElden Ring, if it even counts it as a different kind of controller. The streamer who set up the EEG to playElden Ringhas a Master’s in Psychology and specializes in vision. While she’s managed to connect pads to her head that read the brain’s signals, she has to keep them wet with saline in order to keep them effective. She hasn’t mapped out all of the controls, though she trained it to recognize brain patterns and then bound them to the attack key.RELATED:Elden Ring Player Finds Surprising Success With Low Intelligence Mage BuildJake Lucky shared on Twitter about the player literally using her mindto beatElden Ring, Twitch streamer Perrikaryal. A British-Canadian streamer in her twenties, she has a Bluetooth brain scanner that she can use with coding and bind to games. Sometimes on her stream, Perrikaryal will even show the scan in real-time while she plays different games such as horror so that fans can see her brain as she gets scared. InElden Ring, she still moves with the thumbstick and presses different buttons, but whenever she attacks the command is coming directly from her brain.
Perrikaryal stated on stream that the tech isn’t perfect and sometimes the attack will fire off even when she’s not thinking about it, or won’t when she needs it to. However, it’s sensitive enough to reliably defeat bosses. She’smade it past Godrick the Graftedand Margit but is currently struggling with Renala because her first phase relies on well-timed and frequent attacks, which she admits the EEG does not excel at. She says that the best visualization that works to activate the attack is to imagine slowly pushing something heavy forward.
It remains to be seen if EEG streams will ever becomecommon like Twitch streams with eye trackers. The next generation of reaction content might let fans see how a person’s brain responds to different videos and games.
Elden Ringis available to play on PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox One Series X/S.
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