Comments on: More Gaming Virtuality

By: go

go — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:44:11 +0000

QFT!
This guy rocks.

By: restricted3

restricted3 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:45:26 +0000

I have to say I’m with Meat Circus. This guy has impressed me more in a couple of months that many hardware companies in years.

The fact that this soft can give you a 3D sensation in a puny YouTube little video speaks volumes. Someone should give some millions to this guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:23:34 +0000

I would love to see someone strafe-jumping in that thing… XD

By: quibbles

quibbles — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:55:47 +0000

Looks more fun on a keyboard and mouse.

By: Dan Forever

Dan Forever — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:58:50 +0000

Why, oh why, do you keep ignoring that head-tracking video that’s been over teh internets, when it clearly has far more immediate relevance to gaming than any MAGIC PYRAMID or huge multi-projector wraparound screen monstrosity?

Whilst the head tracking thing is pretty sweet, you are still limited to looking at a screen, so you can only turn your head as far as the edges of your screen.
The wrap around screen means you don’t have to abstract the desire to turn into a hand movement for a mouse, you can just turn your head and see. OK it’s not cheap, but that’s not the point…

By: Junior

Junior — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:20:33 +0000

So where do I look for my own 3d gaming fix these days?

I’m guessing that with their massive refresh rate requirements the ol’ shutter goggles aren’t very popular these days.

But I’d have thought with the advent of widescreen that stereoscopic mods would be more popular these days.

I’ve only played one game in true 3d, and that was amazing, I WANT MORE!

By: Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:44 +0000

I like the one guy who really gets into it by jumping around, ducking, grasping his controller with two hands like it’s a real gun, etc.

By: Surprise

Surprise — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:00:46 +0000

He, im from Karlsruhe and read about that on this blog.

Feels kinda weird :-)

By: dartt

dartt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:00:51 +0000

Thank goodness! No more shall we look like fools in our VR goggles; now we can just duck in to our giant projection halo and dance about looking asthmatic!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:35:13 +0000

@moromete:

No, but there’s this relatively well-known example of Doom on a Sphere.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:32:41 +0000

All of these “giant projected 3d” things are, of course, incredibly silly (but then, this seems to be the point of the article?). Meat Circus is quite right in noting that any “3d” solution that actually works for a home user is probably going to do head-tracking, or involve a much more miniaturised version of those bulky VR goggles…

By: derFeef

derFeef — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:07:30 +0000

Hehe Jim. I hope something like that will never be succesfull. It looks ridiculous.