[salvo] enjoys searching for ‘untitled document’ with google. He ran across this crazy little project that just cracked me up. It’s a video camera rig that’s designed to simulate the video presentation of virtual reality games (everquest, etc.) and it actually does a decent job. It would probably get you arrested if you wore it in Boston…
kick @$$
Posted at 1:40 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Hunter
HILLARIOUS! This is absolutely the greatest thing to hit my eyes all day hahahahaha
Posted at 1:48 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Steve
Imagine this jacked into a wifi network that created an overlay of an mmorpg on top of the real world and set loose a bunch of users in a safe area where real life and online life converged. WOW Theme Park anyone?
Posted at 2:03 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Dustin Winn
i love fps games not 3p (except gta) i think this is a waist of a camera sorry and i think he looks like a dumb ass lol probably so does he
Posted at 2:29 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Alex McCown
This is a creative idea, but technically, this is stupid
It would be MUCH more interesting to make this into a virtual reality system, tracking the movements of the person and showing a 3D rendered world in the user’s HUD monitor.
Posted at 2:29 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by alex
HAHA, cool, always wanted someone to do this. i think it would have been better on a car ;) driving with a playstation pad! hmm, is there a law against that?!?!
Posted at 3:41 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by joe
Hehe! thats funny, specially since ive been playing second life for 36 straight hours. according to the site, this is what it’s purpose is:
The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.
its funny because its true! people really do behave differently in games than in real life.
now i have to go clean the snot off of my keyboard.
Posted at 4:06 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Bob
Re: 7.
I have wanted to do that for ages, having an external view while driving, but I cant get around the problem of what would happen if you drive under a bridge, or into a tunnel :)
seriously though, an overhead view whilst driving could pretty well eliminate the problem of blinds spots on a vehicle.
Maybe a UAV that follows the car around?
Posted at 4:21 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Genome
What a cool idea. I think the people that aren’t cutting this guy much slack should peruse the rest of his website. Most of his work is more ‘art’ than electronics. That’s the impression I got anyway.
It would be very interesting to see this applied to an RC airplane. I can think of a number of RC toys that would be fun to use from this perspective…
They need to get two guys with that setup and have them fight each other. Now THAT would be great!
Posted at 8:45 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by foreyes4
What and have loudspeakers that put out 120DB “FINSIH HIM!”
Live action mortal kombat. Oh yeah, that will get attention.
Posted at 9:02 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by farthead
reminds me of arquake
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www/
damn that was fun.
Posted at 9:41 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by ebola
The goofy walk was the best part. hahaha.
Posted at 9:49 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by Colin
This looks like a primitive version of the system described in Bruce Sterling’s book, “The Artificial Kid”.
Posted at 11:59 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by uwe
you know the search for “untitled document” idea was worth the article by itself. ;)
Posted at 4:48 pm on Jul 11th, 2007 by Lance
HE should have started kicking the tree’s and jumping up against them lamely like we all do in RPG/ adventures while shouting “HAI!” or the similar.
Posted at 5:12 pm on Jul 11th, 2007 by Wolfmankurd
Everyone else in that video just tried to avoid the guy. “uhoh, another rpg fan getting caried away. maybe if i just ignore him, he won’t cast bolt3 on me…”
Posted at 6:45 pm on Jul 11th, 2007 by drew
What he needs to do is have the wires and such hidden out of view of the camera.
Posted at 9:13 pm on Jul 11th, 2007 by MJ
the outfit he is wearing reminds me of an atrox in tank armor and med suit from anarchy online
Posted at 1:16 am on Jul 12th, 2007 by cartufer
I still prefer the Tinmith system in general. It’s sort of like Second Life in Mouselook, with building and creation tools too.
Posted at 12:13 pm on Jul 12th, 2007 by Rob
derp, forgot the link – it was http://www.tinmith.net
Posted at 12:13 pm on Jul 12th, 2007 by Rob
What ever happened to good ol Laser tag? that was alot easier………..
Posted at 3:50 pm on Jul 12th, 2007 by butchcassidy1717
#7. i think mythbusters had an episode where they used a plane controller to controll the car. (they did not want to be in a rocket propelled car) it would be easy to remove the radio controll and hook up a ps2 controller directly. but, even IF it is legal, it is still dangerous. (course your driving could just suck either way) (jk)
Posted at 1:16 am on Jul 13th, 2007 by despoteuodia
I think we crashed the server or overloaded it too much with traffic. The page seems to be down.
Posted at 12:57 pm on Jul 16th, 2007 by knvb1123
The page is available via Google’s cache. http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:jYBQzXhFS8UJ:www.marcowens.co.uk/avat.html+http://www.marcowens.co.uk/avat.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera
Youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuC1st-cA9M
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he needs to make a write-up on that fancy strut.
best part.
i like this a lot.
Posted at 1:27 am on Jul 11th, 2007 by joelanders