Comments on: True 3D Gaming

By: Skylance

Skylance — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:07:05 +0000

@derFeef

Those weren’t holograms. They had two sheets of very thin, very clear (not so clear you can’t see it) plastic on either side of the runway that they projected the images on. Don’t get me wrong, it was very, very clever bit of imaging trickery. That said said, they were by no means holographic images.

Look closer at the videos, you’ll see what I mean.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:26:36 +0000

What, you think it’ll NEVER be done?
Never?

By: Darune

Darune — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:37:24 +0000

The question is: Do we want to surround a 3D world ?
Because this holographic projection makes you surround 3D objects, you will have to walk around the object to see its different faces.
In video game we are looking for immersion, what is more natural than turning you head in the direction you want to look ?

I remembered, when i was a child, there were Virtual Reality arcade system which were looking like this: http://www.stereo3d.com/img/su2000_vrarcade.gif i still don’t understand why these systems disappeared, however thanks to johny lee we can now do that at home ;)

I believe holographic projection is not the future of video gaming but i hope that VR/head tracking systems will soon be integrated in games.

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:42:11 +0000

This looks positively stupid, and they haven’t shown that it works at all or explained it. They need a still object and for the camera to just move about it, everything moving negates the effect and literally it may as well be a flat screen. Things like the footage of the girls dancing and the car on the road are obviously 2D…?? so… really… apar from the fact its in a massive encasement of steel and it doesn’t look that high fidelity…

The wii hack which I imagine is quite similar to TrackIR is leaps and bounds better than this, cheaper and much more useful.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:32:20 +0000

As mentioned above, Johnny Chung Lee’s homebrew head-tracking using the wii remote and sensor bar (or just a pair of IR LEDs mounted on some glasses) is *very* cool.

You can download it and it’s easy to setup and get running – we’ve had it going in the office and had a dozen people looking like tits while holding a Wii sensor bar over their heads and ducking around a screen going “oooh looky”. The effect works beautifully and as it just moves the in-game camera around, would easily work with *any* 3D game.

If you’ve got a bluetooth dongle for your PC, a Wii remote and Wii sensor bar, I’d highly recommend giving it a go as it’s pretty cool :-)

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:27:37 +0000

clearly we need the porn industry to pave the way for this technology to become cheaply accessible in the home and office. *waits patiently*

By: Leelad

Leelad — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:07:14 +0000

You can see it in full 360 degree angle..WITH HUGE SHITTING GIRDERS IN THE WAY!!

By: Andrew Mayer

Andrew Mayer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:27:31 +0000

There will be 3D games when there are good 3D displays. It’s kind of silly to think that it will never happen.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:31:40 +0000

The future doesn’t happening until Sony say so. Didn’t you get the memo?

By: derFeef

derFeef — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:07:10 +0000

Uhm, well, there was a whole fashion show with holograms, I think it was diesel and it was very impressive. This thing is only meh…

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:06:03 +0000

hover*car* damnit.

By: roryok

roryok — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:02:02 +0000

“WHERE ARE MY HOLOGRAMS. I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE FUTURE.”

You idiot! The future isn’t happening till later on. Get with the times.