Comments on: levelHead In Action

By: moonracer

moonracer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:45:08 +0000

Eye of Judgment for PS3 uses the same tech. Imagine the same concept superimposing digital imagery over reality through goggles (or contact lenses). I could have a special pattern printed on my bed sheets so it looked like they were constantly in flames (well, as long as I looked directly at them).

By: Chiablo

Chiablo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:58:13 +0000

Combine this concept with WASD controls and ‘N’ the way of the ninja’s gameplay.

By: luminosity

luminosity — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:50:59 +0000

Reminds me a little of House of Leaves. Now that could be a cool game. Guide the guy out of the cube which is actively changing its structure to keep him trapped.

By: h4plo

h4plo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:05:17 +0000

I want to see this done on the sides of buildings.

By: No Projector

No Projector — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:26:49 +0000

No projector, its being composited. So whomever wished there were no projector wins!

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:39:28 +0000

Still looks amazing :)

It is a genius idea and is implemented rather well.

By: Urre

Urre — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:43:00 +0000

I’m amazed so few seem to have looked up on the tech and the related info. All you need is a cardboard box with symbols printed on it, and a webcam. That’s the whole novelty. That’s what can keep the size down, whereas an LCD covered cube would be at a bare minimum 5 times larger due to wiring and whatnot, much heavier, extremly expensive (cardboard box costs…?) and it wouldn’t provide the coolest part, which is seeing around the corners as you move the cube around. On LCD’s the game would be entirely flat, whereas using this it looks as if the game is inside the cube. It’s so elegant… And it’s obviously not limited to cubes, as anyone who’s looked up Augmented Reality will soon discover.

By: ape

ape — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:25:11 +0000

Very nice, but the novelty does wear off after the first view. Also I could do without the “I wish I was Autechre” type music. (Although I do wish I was part of Autechre… like 12 years ago you know, when they actually made good music.)

I’m also wondering what this game needs as hardware. Blocks, projectors, webcam? Anyone know?

By: Bartleby

Bartleby — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:23:09 +0000

Dear ladies, and gentlemen,

why is it that, when a game tries to push the boundaries of what can be done with videogames, there’s always someone talking about “market”, “licenses”, and what not?
why is it we can admire what can actually be done, no market involved?
btw, the source _was_ released July 30th. Check selectparks.

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:58:57 +0000

@Gladman:

Look here: http://selectparks.net/~julian/levelhead/install.html

(And go to the heading that says “Getting levelHead”)

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:29:19 +0000

That’s just trippy and cool on so many levels, totally awesome.

By: Hopper

Hopper — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:21:53 +0000

They’re using ARTag to make this game. http://www.artag.net/
Dabbled with it a little bit for a project in college. Used it with XNA and SharperCV.
It’s pretty poor if the tag is too far from the camera but the speed at which it notices a tag is incredible. It can also detect partially covered tags.

@james b: yup, you can just print out all your own tags.