Innergy First Look

Ubisoft took its "Games You Can Feel" E3 2010 motto to new heights today when it announced a PC "game" that aims to teach players how to breathe.

Titled Innergy, the program will use a small sensor attached to the player's finger to measure his or her heartbeat and match it with an onscreen visual. The stage demo showed a colorful rainbow heartbeat graph moving across the screen; moving through the graph was a small, beanlike creature that occasionally fired the commands "breathe in" and "breathe out" via a speech bubble.

According to the game's designer, following the onscreen prompts to breathe in and out for 10-minute sessions every day will change players' heartbeat patterns and create something called "cardiac coherence." Details are sketchy, but according to Ubisoft, this can help to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and boost the immune system for up to six hours a day.

No more details were given, but you can be sure we'll be seeing more of Innergy in the future.