Was Atanni Mindlink Mispelled?
Clearly this is exactly the tech that is in use in SWXW. And obviously it has fallen out of use on our planet since it was nerfed back in 1983-4 with the big Atari crash.
Yeah, something along the lines of they tried to test it out on Raiders of the Lost Arc and between the requirement for 2 joysticks and the difficulty there were a number of *ahem* high volume temporal aneurysms.