{"id":2391,"date":"2013-07-10T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2021-12-22T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:20:31","slug":"a-mixed-time-for-relaxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"A mixed time for relaxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s post, I quickly checked up on Innergy, Ubisoft&#8217;s entry into the biofeedback market. Announced a year after the Vitality in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/?p=389\">2010<\/a>, the game seems to of quietly disappeared off Ubisoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ubi.com\/search?site=default_collection&amp;client=ubiportal_1_5_en-GB&amp;proxystylesheet=ubiportal_1_5_en-GB&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;q=Innergy&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">website<\/a>. The most recent news report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-04-23-ubisofts-innergy-is-still-alive-due-next-year-report\">2012<\/a> indicated work was still on-going on the project, but no release schedule had been announced. Given the lack of PR noise this late in the year and the missing listings on Ubisoft&#8217;s webpage I don&#8217;t expect we&#8217;ll see a 2013 release or one in the future. This would be rather disappointing, although the revealed gameplay was very traditional for a a biofeedback regime, the production values where first rate e.g. art work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolitoland.com\/\">Rolito<\/a> (see Patapon on the Sony PSP) of and which is sorely lacking in many biofeedback programs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn more upbeat news, Vryo Games, which was set-up back in 2004 by the developers behind the competitive relaxation game we all know (and love to reference): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ie\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CC0QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedialabeurope.org%2Fmindgames%2Fpublications%2FpublicationsAtlanta2001rev3.pdf&amp;ei=cDHdUZneNqqR7AaTqoGQAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXLDZICQrl_X-XBgZr1Clim8czIg&amp;sig2=ipHo5D7jelptHNt_ctvr8w&amp;bvm=bv.48705608,d.ZGU\">Relax-to-Win<\/a> , is back with a new name, <a href=\"http:\/\/galvanic.ie\/\">Galvanic<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/484175508\/the-pip-a-biosensor-that-helps-you-relax-through-p\">KickStarter campaign<\/a> for their mobile biofeedback suite PiP which has routes in their early work at MIT Media Lab Europe. See if you can find spot the homage to the original Relax-to-Win in their software suite. If your interested in supporting the system the KickStarter is about half way towards its goal and has 9 more days left to go.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I could always do with another sensor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s post, I quickly checked up on Innergy, Ubisoft&#8217;s entry into the biofeedback market. Announced a year after the Vitality in 2010, the game seems to of quietly disappeared off Ubisoft&#8217;s website. The most recent news report in 2012 indicated work was still on-going on the project, but no release schedule had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,20,134,132,129,130,133],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pY315-Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}