A new gaming mouse wants to bring some of the biometrics used to optimise professional sports stars' performance to eSports gamers. The NAOS Quantified Gaming mouse uses built-in sensors to monitor, feedback and chart an array of biometrics hoping to make the user "become a better gamer". The sensors built-into the mouse can read, specifically, your heart rate, galvanic skin response and actions per minute.
Mionix Labs is the outfit behind the NAOS QG. Mionix asserts that tracking, monitoring and analysing selected biometrics can improve your gaming. Users of the NAOS QG mouse can toggle real-time sensor readouts which are displayed on an overlay on any game screen. See the control panel screengrab below.
You can watch your vitals as you game, and as you do so you are expected to modify your behaviour to regulate things like your stress levels and heart rate. After sessions you will be able to look back at your biometric data and try and make some sense of it thanks to the Mionix statistics collection display. An example is shown below.
Inevitably with a modern tech product, sharing is also implemented. Users can choose to share their physical reaction gaming data live on screen via Twitch, for example. Or you could just share a snapshot via Facebook, it's up to you.
Beyond the sensors, which come with open APIs, the mouse is said to be "a cutting edge optical gaming mouse with outstanding ergonomics, highest build quality and awesome performance." However no detailed specifications are listed to back-up that statement.
To make the NAOS QG from prototype to shipping product Mionix is looking for $100,000 in funding. The project seems to be going well - as in just one day, with 39 to go, it has achieved 20 per cent of that total in pledges. At the time of writing there's still some availability at the $79 level to get an early bird NAOS QG mouse at quite a discount on the "suggested retail price of $129". Prices include free worldwide shipping.
