are still bound to a traditional controller and having started from scratch a few times it took maybe 11 hours of straight training even then perri says shes not happy with the results it works but its sometimes unreliable and i have to keep adjusting it 30 minutes before a stream therell be more training and that sometimes extends into the broadcasts in an ideal world perri says shed start from scratch deleting all her previous trials and doing it several hundred times over the course of a week just to really nail down that single mental movementimage credit bandai namcoeven with all that effort in advance theres no guarantee of getting results a single action somewhere in the back of the mind can disrupt the reading and render the thought pattern ineffective you can train the software as much as you want but youre not always guaranteed that youre going to be doing the same thing sometimes i absentmindedly tap my foot and that completely messes up the whole thing because it adds a little squiggle somewhere else sometimes the system will work perfectly in testing only for the nerves of performing in front of an audience to disrupt it in a live environment sometimes concentrating on a specific thought becomes impossible when being charged down by a huge hulking monster fatigue plays a part too and so perri thinks does the eegs battery capacity if any of those things contributes to a different pattern of brain activity the eeg wont pick up the desire to attack and the keybind wont be triggered no matter how much mental effort is put in it feels like your brain is broken she saysthe science perris experience with eegs dates back to her time at university she has a masters degree in psychology and came across the technology during the little bits of neuroscience she tackled at school i always thought it was these really expensive massive machines that you had to have a medical degree to use she says but the headset she uses in her streams is a consumer model that she bought for around 1000 i thought hey i have savings thats not not doable from there curiosity took over could you keybind this or could you display this over a horror game what would it look like at a jumpscare thats what i started doing so it was just something i knew about found accidentally thought would be really cool now im thinking about all the possibilities and where you can go perri herself isnt involved directly in this aspect of the technology but notes the potential for people with certain disabilities and accessibilitybeyond video games those aspects of eeg are already being tested the first time they did something like this with the headset controlling a robot was in 1988 and that is a long time for science and then theyve been successfully controlling wheelchairs perris headset seems futuristic but she says that the potential that the