Earlier this year, Twitch streamer and psychology researcher Perrikaryal used her electroencephalogram (EEG) device (which records the brain’s electrical activity, but also has telekinetic research history) to beat Elden Ring, “using [her] mind for everything but movement.” Now she’s taking things even further, gunning down opponents in Halo multiplayer without touching a controller at all.

“Killed ‘em without even lifting a finger,” Perrikaryal, who goes by Perri online, responded to a video clip esports reporter Jake Lucky posted to Twitter.

Read more

• Mel Tucker was the highest-paid Black coach in college football history — he blew it because he’s a creep

• Check Out These Special Valve Stem Caps That A NASCAR Team Used To Cheat Tire Pressure Rules

• Jerry Seinfeld offers different version of events in Jimmy Fallon exposé

• If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

• Elon Musk’s Third Child with Grimes Raises More Sinister Questions

Read More: Twitch Streamer Plays Elden Ring Using Only Her Brain

It’s all in the name of her ultimate goal, “to make the hands-free controller all-encompassing (all buttons and triggers accessible) and easier than a regular controller [...] so that anyone can use it for a comparable gaming experience,” she tells me. In pursuit of this, she’s making things more complicated by streaming Minecraft, or, as she affectionately calls it, “MINDcraft,” on September 12.

“A game like Minecraft is going to be an insane challenge because of all the menus that are required to navigate,” she said. It’s a good thing, then, that Perri has big brain ambitions. In addition to calibrating her existing inputs like eye and head movements, she’s also working with a “few labs and research groups [...] experimenting with biosignals,” like blood pressure and heart rate, “and EEG in order to integrate all of this into VR and a more immersive gaming experience.”

“Playing Elden Ring [...] served as a great practice ground for trialing out different visualizations and figuring out what worked for me,” Perri said. “I’m not afraid of scrapping a visualization I spent hundreds of hours training for [...] because I know now that that’s just a part of the process, and an important part of getting stronger as a mind-control gamer.”

More from Kotaku

• A Popular OTC Decongestant Might Soon Be Pulled From Shelves for Being Useless

• 10 Horror Movies to Stream on Netflix Tonight

• A Volcano In The U.S. Could Contain The Biggest Lithium Deposit In The World

• NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Inadvertently Breaks Record for Longest U.S. Space Mission

• I'd Like to Thank the Person Who Does the US Open Seating Chart

Sign up for Kotaku's Newsletter. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Click here to read the full article.