Check the timestamp on this post. Within the minute from then, Walker will be in my AIM window telling me off for using such a horrible grab-from-you-tube. But it’s too late! Too late! You’ll never catch me and there’s nothing else that can replace it. Ahahahahaha, etc. Er… Parkin forwarded this to me, which has been doing the rounds for the last couple of days. It’s a gent who’s made his own VR gamegun, by tying a motion sensor and a camera to a plastic gun. He turns, the game turns. He shoots, the game shoots. He speaks, he has an awesome accent, but that’s nothing do with the gamegun. You must watch, clearly…
And while we’re here, I’m mildly horrified by the pun-title intro. It’s based off Disco Machine Gun, an early single by the Lo Fidelity Allstars, which was later renamed Blisters on My Brain. Which is this:
Ah, those were quite literally the late nineties.
So much about this video is awesome–not least of which is the fact that this dude’s computer desk doubles as a liquor cabinet.
I’ll admit this does look pretty cool, but obviously it not something I could be holding in my hands tomorrow.
On the subject of FPSey peripherals I just noticed that steam just patched some of my Source games for use with the Novint Falcon. “WTF is the Novint Falcon?!” I wondered …
A little digging turned up this trigger+forcefeedback dealy https://home.novint.com/store/promote.php (watch the video).
Ahh I remember using one of these years ago!
Only it wasn’t an LCD screen, it was a big, unwieldy helmet. And it wasn’t so much a gun as a plastic trigger thing. And it wasn’t FEAR 2 but some kind of floating platform where you shot pterodactyls and someone else wearing another VR helmet standing next to you. And it wasn’t my front room, it was the Trocadero Games Arcade.