Ride of your life: Brain-controlled fairground ride in development
Professor Brendan Walker is creating a ride which monitors your brain and uses your thoughts to plot it's course.
Professor Brendan Walker, from The Thrill Laboratory, is attempting to create a new breed of virtual-reality ride, which monitors your brain and uses your thoughts to plot its course.
The ride, which is called 'Neurosis', will be demonstrated in front of an audience for the first time at FutureFest in London next month.
Neurosis will monitor the brain of the rider and react to fluctuations in brain activity.
"I’m using a motion platform…which is gonna be on top of a tower giving a real sense you might tumble off the top, you’re gonna be wearing virtual reality goggles… accompanied by music…and there’s gonna be a light show, it’s gonna be a real spectator experience", Professor Walker said.
Only one person can go ride at a time though, so does the type of ride depend on what sort of person you are?
"I know what I want the person to experience, a sense of anguish, anxiety, apprehension, through to a kind of jubilation when they get off, hopefully avoiding any sense of wanting to vomit” he told 5 live Afternoon Edition.
"If they aren’t following the trajectory I’ve intended, the ride will make automatic decisions to make it more or less scary".
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