Comments on: Disk? Go? Machinegun!: GameGun! The Gamegun!

By: Richard Beer

Richard Beer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:22:21 +0000

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.

By: Feintlocke

Feintlocke — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:56:43 +0000

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).

By: MastodonFarm

MastodonFarm — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:31:02 +0000

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.

By: OJ 287

OJ 287 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:14:47 +0000

What about a wii fit mat or three for movement? The tech’s all there :)

The Daily Mail would love a Gameknife or Gamecrowbar.

By: OldManTick

OldManTick — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:28 +0000

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2005/11/virtusphere_the/

By: Serondal

Serondal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:40:06 +0000

Yah that would be great people roaming streets with guns randomly pointing them at people. That sounds like an idea full of win. And once everyone gets used to it someone will shoot someone and no one will respond.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:48 +0000

In echoing a few peoples’ comments, I think this has far more potential as part of an Augmented Reality based FPS, where various teams of combatants might roam the streets of major cities with these, but with the screens instead displaying what’s in front of them with an AR overlay highlighting other players, your health, geographical information etc.

By: MrBejeebus

MrBejeebus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:51:01 +0000

good idea toonu.

By: Telemikus

Telemikus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:28:41 +0000

I have wrong love for the lo fi’s, and this track in particular. In fact my old Quake handle was Discomachinegun as well. Kieran is demonstrating his good taste once again.

By: toonu

toonu — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:33:37 +0000

buy a treadmill, and track your legs, put the treadmill on a space hopper, track that and you got a 360 degree forwards and backwards completly arsed up pc gamer rig.

By: PlaneSight

PlaneSight — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:48:24 +0000

You can’t do this with a wiimote because it only has accelerometers, no gyroscope, so it can’t measure yawing movement. That is, not until the yet-to-be-released upgrade.

If you used Freetrack you could put a camera on the ceiling and LEDs on the gun and might be able to get something similar working.

By: Dr.Evanzan

Dr.Evanzan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:34:09 +0000

I second the Augmented Reality suggestion.

Does anyone remember Ultraviolet (the British modern-day vampire series, not the terrible film)? The characters in that used handguns with cameras/LCDs mounted on top to detect vampires. If a person was in the ‘real world’ but didn’t appear on the LCD they were a vampire (as they didn’t have a ‘reflection’) and got shot with charcoal bullets.

You could make a great AR game which was the opposite of this. Running around shooting ghosts or somesuch that were only visible on the LCD. Could be very atmospheric.