Comments on: VR Game Gun

By: ewoud

ewoud — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:57:06 +0000

really awesome. I’m trying to transform my android htc wildfire into a gyroscopic mouse (there is already software for that). And maybe I’ll by movie glasses like the vuzix wrap 230.

Really cool

By: Jacky

Jacky — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:49:27 +0000

Nicepost!!Thanks for sharing! Checkout my blog at

By: miked

miked — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:33:14 +0000

How about making a kit for your choice of AirSoft rifle…to mimic the badass rifles in MW2!

By: NVRBLD

NVRBLD — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:50:25 +0000

see the new photo at his site Blackhall.net/GameGun.htm

By: RS Components

RS Components — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:18:44 +0000

Great mod, and really easy to do. That what I call innovative game design. Not just making the game look better and better but also making the experience, in total, better and better.

By: king randow

king randow — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:16:56 +0000

That is a quite a cool gadget to have, and the best thing is that it is quite easy to build from all the electronic components you might have at home already. The only worry would be, if you tackle you mother by accident.

By: Chris - Gun Games

Chris - Gun Games — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:04:11 +0000

That is one awesome mod. Really amazing. Playing Crisis Warhead with that would be amazing!

By: k

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:23:12 +0000

wiimote with motion+ would be 10x easier. I want to see a project that ANYONE can do, and requires much less work.

By: pelrun

pelrun — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:37 +0000

Throw a wiimote, nunchuck and motionplus into one of those rifle shells (modified to fit the motionplus, obviously) and stick the lcd screen on top! I’m sure a lot of us have most of those lying around already, and it’s far more capable than the gyromouse solution. Heck, you get a full 6dof imu!

I’m off to buy myself a motionplus today…

By: Louis II

Louis II — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:39:03 +0000

Combine with this kind of technology:
http://kotaku.com/5293855/augmented-reality-game-fights-zombies-with-skittles

Then you could have a real “level” in a warehouse where you could run around on a big map shooting stuff…. of course it would be limited to x/y level design with out any z to speak of…. but it would be fairly interesting.
Peace!

By: Alan Parekh

Alan Parekh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:10:43 +0000

Looks like it works very well. I wonder how many things get tripped over during a battle?

By: Edward@Nardella.ca

Edward@Nardella.ca — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:10:16 +0000

I first though “I have to do this, but the screen will cost lots.” Then I realized that I could just use my netbook. Now all I need is the mouse and gun. I also need to know how to interface the mouse with the game so as to get 1:1 control.

By: jshabadoo

jshabadoo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:23:40 +0000

This is pretty cool, but part of aiming with a mouse vs thumbs or this VR gun is that you can do a 180 almost instantly. This gun would actually require that you perform a 180. Probably get owned from behind a lot.

Probably *really* tedious to get mouse acceleration set correctly for each game.

Otherwise pretty awesome.

By: greycode

greycode — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:54:28 +0000

Well gutting a Wii controller is not that big of a leap, it is a slightly off version of Bluetooth, you get the up down left right, and we have seen them used for three dimensional projects. Powering them is simple, and adding them in may not be all that hard. The antenna are dirt cheap, so you can use the IR part as well. Plenty of alternate uses for them. I like that screen interface though, you could see him looking around in odd angles with it. This thing is probably close to polishing up and selling it. I am starting to get interested in it now I can get Duke Nukem to work on XP.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:42:23 +0000

What I wonder is, how does he handle the difference in game angle and angle of the gun, because as far as I know, the mouse is used as a relative input device in fps games, as opposed to an absolute input, which this is.