[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…
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he needs to make a write-up on that fancy strut.
best part.
i like this a lot.
kick @$$
HILLARIOUS! This is absolutely the greatest thing to hit my eyes all day hahahahaha
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?
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
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.
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?!?!
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.
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?
They need to get two guys with that setup and have them fight each other. Now THAT would be great!
What and have loudspeakers that put out 120DB “FINSIH HIM!”
Live action mortal kombat. Oh yeah, that will get attention.
reminds me of arquake
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www/
damn that was fun.
The goofy walk was the best part. hahaha.
This looks like a primitive version of the system described in Bruce Sterling’s book, “The Artificial Kid”.
you know the search for “untitled document” idea was worth the article by itself. ;)
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.
That is an awesome contraption. Very funny. Though I found it odd that nobody seemed to think it was strange that a guy was walking around wearing that gizmo.
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…”
What he needs to do is have the wires and such hidden out of view of the camera.
the outfit he is wearing reminds me of an atrox in tank armor and med suit from anarchy online
I still prefer the Tinmith system in general. It’s sort of like Second Life in Mouselook, with building and creation tools too.
derp, forgot the link – it was http://www.tinmith.net
What ever happened to good ol Laser tag? that was alot easier………..
#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)
the link’s broken…
I think we crashed the server or overloaded it too much with traffic. The page seems to be down.
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
@will I’d giv it an 8/10