A YouTuber has unveiled an aimbot device that uses electric shocks to make his arm snap to in-game targets almost instantly, and in some cases, even pull the trigger for him. In a recent YouTube video, Basically Homeless (whose real name is Nicholas) showed his journey of building the homemade contraption and eventually blurring the line between human reflexes and machine assistance in competitive games.
Nicholas came up with the idea for this neuromuscular aimbot when he noticed that his own reaction times began slowing with age. The average human reaction time is around 200 milliseconds, while competitive esports players can get closer to the 150ms mark, or even below. Clearly then, each millisecond matters in competitive gaming, so Nicholas set out to create a system that could bypass the brain entirely, allowing a computer to detect enemies faster and trigger muscle movements automatically.
This goal led him down a path of Computer Vision, electrical muscle stimulation, and a fair amount of trial-and-error. Nicholas finally ended up developing the "Neuromuscular Aim Assist," which works by pairing a YOLO (You Only Look Once) model trained on Counter-Strike 2 gameplay with an EMS (electromyostimulation) or TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)...
