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by Veserv 819 days ago
Why would this be remembered as a breakthrough? Playing games with a BCI is many years old at this point. Here is an article from 2020 talking about playing Sonic the Hedgehog, amongst other games [1]. Here he is fist bumping President Obama in 2016 with a brain controlled robot arm.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/12/16/brain-...

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Yeah game/simulator control by neural interface is old news (and has been demonstrated with non-invasive interfaces.)

[2015] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paralyzed-woman-op...

[2013] With a non-invasive interface: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2560/10/4/04...

[2011] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2010] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876032/