The hardware highlights — and horrors — of the 2015 Neurogaming Conference

After last week’s Neurogaming Conference in San Francisco, my brain feels like it’s been kneaded relentlessly by an onslaught of virtual reality hardware, brain scanning contraptions, and mind shocking probes.

The near-future of gaming, if that’s what we’re even going to call what I witnessed, is going to be awash with various reality-altering devices. We’ll find ourselves tethered to machines that can sense our mood in real time and manipulate our senses accordingly — and completely.