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Virtual Reality is a man made reality using a computer which virtual creates a 'world' where you can see things and touch (via the aid of a head set) things but they really aren't there.
This can be used for many things. Worldwide business meetings. They could have meetings where you can see, talk to and do about anything with people but they could be sitting down over 100 miles away. Or it could be used like a chat room, so that you could talk to your girl (boy) friend when you are in another country. But this has nothing at all to do with the future of gaming at all... or does it?
In five or ten years time when the Playstation 4 and Game Cube 3 is out, there isn't much it could really advance on, just a bit more power here, sharper graphics there. And gamers would be board of the 3-D appearance on a Television screen. So there must be a new, revolutionary experience, which will change things forever! And there is only one left, VIRTUAL REALITY.
At the beginning like most things, it will be much out of our price range (like IF the X-Box does turn out to be £500!), but it WILL drop down if people like Nintendo and Sony (etc) get their hands on the new technology.
This will mean that a whole new experience will be born! Just image what it could do! Playing Goldeneye when you can control Bond as he goes round the Facility level or seeing Hyrule field with your own eyes! But it will not stop here! Oh no, you can have online gaming so you can do this with real people in a virtual environment!
But there are two problems!
1. How can you move around a massive place in VR but still be in your bedroom?
There are two answers to this
Part 1. You can 2 gloves and inside them gloves are 10 buttons (1 for each finger) and they control all your actions, (much like the unknown Playstation glove, 3rd party).
Part 2. This will be very hard to make and to explain. You have a full 360 'treadmill'! What this is, is when you walk forward, the material underneath your feet moves as well so is seems that you are moving but your not, the hard part is, what will you do when you turn? This could be done with a motion sensor that detects where you’re facing.
This is the TRUE way forward for games, or, something much more advance than this will come out, but I can't think of anything that will beat the experience of playing a game, where your are playing the part of some, your self, using your body.
Here is to VR, the way forward for games and meetings!
NIS
This can be used for many things. Worldwide business meetings. They could have meetings where you can see, talk to and do about anything with people but they could be sitting down over 100 miles away. Or it could be used like a chat room, so that you could talk to your girl (boy) friend when you are in another country. But this has nothing at all to do with the future of gaming at all... or does it?
In five or ten years time when the Playstation 4 and Game Cube 3 is out, there isn't much it could really advance on, just a bit more power here, sharper graphics there. And gamers would be board of the 3-D appearance on a Television screen. So there must be a new, revolutionary experience, which will change things forever! And there is only one left, VIRTUAL REALITY.
At the beginning like most things, it will be much out of our price range (like IF the X-Box does turn out to be £500!), but it WILL drop down if people like Nintendo and Sony (etc) get their hands on the new technology.
This will mean that a whole new experience will be born! Just image what it could do! Playing Goldeneye when you can control Bond as he goes round the Facility level or seeing Hyrule field with your own eyes! But it will not stop here! Oh no, you can have online gaming so you can do this with real people in a virtual environment!
But there are two problems!
1. How can you move around a massive place in VR but still be in your bedroom?
There are two answers to this
Part 1. You can 2 gloves and inside them gloves are 10 buttons (1 for each finger) and they control all your actions, (much like the unknown Playstation glove, 3rd party).
Part 2. This will be very hard to make and to explain. You have a full 360 'treadmill'! What this is, is when you walk forward, the material underneath your feet moves as well so is seems that you are moving but your not, the hard part is, what will you do when you turn? This could be done with a motion sensor that detects where you’re facing.
This is the TRUE way forward for games, or, something much more advance than this will come out, but I can't think of anything that will beat the experience of playing a game, where your are playing the part of some, your self, using your body.
Here is to VR, the way forward for games and meetings!
NIS
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nintendo is simon wrote:
> mate has got one, is uses infra red instead of ball, it runs alot
> smoother too. Also i used this idea for mapping your body into the
> VR unit.
I was thinking about that idea earlier on today. You know how they do motion capture with video cameras feeding motion directly into computer data banks? No reason why you can't use an infra red beam to detect motion in the same way, so you could capture your own motion for say, walking, running, kicking a ball.....
Then you could upload your data into a copy of FIFA 2010 and then watch yourself play for one of the Premiership Sides, or watch yourself take on the role of Solid Snake in MGS 4 and so on, the character on screen (or in VR or on holograph) would move just like you do. The more moves you could upload (diving, rolling, crouching) the more the character in the game would resemble you, and then it's a simple matter of just taking a photograph of your face and wrapping it onto the 'mannequin' model of the character you are controlling.
Voila! You are in the game!!
Where have I heard something like that before?
"EA Sports: YOU'RE in the Game?"
> mate has got one, is uses infra red instead of ball, it runs alot
> smoother too. Also i used this idea for mapping your body into the
> VR unit.
I was thinking about that idea earlier on today. You know how they do motion capture with video cameras feeding motion directly into computer data banks? No reason why you can't use an infra red beam to detect motion in the same way, so you could capture your own motion for say, walking, running, kicking a ball.....
Then you could upload your data into a copy of FIFA 2010 and then watch yourself play for one of the Premiership Sides, or watch yourself take on the role of Solid Snake in MGS 4 and so on, the character on screen (or in VR or on holograph) would move just like you do. The more moves you could upload (diving, rolling, crouching) the more the character in the game would resemble you, and then it's a simple matter of just taking a photograph of your face and wrapping it onto the 'mannequin' model of the character you are controlling.
Voila! You are in the game!!
Where have I heard something like that before?
"EA Sports: YOU'RE in the Game?"
It wasn't me, it was my brain...
(Thanks.)
I'm very proud of him.
(Quite. Although I adore appreciation, it seems rather lifeless coming from someone as unintelligent as you, Grix.)
I really try and keep this relationship alive... I really do...
(Thanks.)
I'm very proud of him.
(Quite. Although I adore appreciation, it seems rather lifeless coming from someone as unintelligent as you, Grix.)
I really try and keep this relationship alive... I really do...
Your Honour wrote:
> NIS, people get unplayable pings now. How is a modem going to be
> able to cope with the added information that would be needed?
Sorry not a modem, but a T3 line or a faster e.g. a special gaming line which can deal with 100's of MB a second. Remember this isn't set for another 10 years, it could happen!
> NIS, people get unplayable pings now. How is a modem going to be
> able to cope with the added information that would be needed?
Sorry not a modem, but a T3 line or a faster e.g. a special gaming line which can deal with 100's of MB a second. Remember this isn't set for another 10 years, it could happen!
NIS, people get unplayable pings now. How is a modem going to be able to cope with the added information that would be needed?
lol
Note to self: Humour seems to be present, but undetectable. Investigate later.
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