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    Image of wannafightabout-it wannafightabout-it
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    I'd Buy That For A Dollar.
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    Image of dfp3050 dfp3050
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    I think the concept is really cool. And I'd like to try it out at some point. My problem is it doesn't seem practical. Not only would you need a spherical room, as Sean suggested, but said room has to be completely empty of all furniture/random crap. I wish I could be more excited about this...
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    all in all, though, i think the way to go with all this is having a motion sensing gun coupled with some high resolution, motion sensing goggles. you eliminate the need for a large spherical room, though you will still have to find some way of not getting too excited and falling face first onto your coffee table.
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    This is freaking awesome!

    Now expand the projection to a dome room where you have walls all around you. Then use ceiling projectors to display all of the areas you are not facing, and overlay only the gun reticle point where ever you are facing, and it's one step closer to the holodeck!!
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    Image of homer15 homer15
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    i think the next big step will be mounting that projector onto the head and having a different sensor determing where the gun is shooting. it'd give you the ability to look around while still firing in a fixed direction
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    Image of twig05 twig05
    12/11/09

    @homer15: I agree with this. I use the TrackIR for my flight sim in which I have some reflective points on my hat that a camera mounted in front of me picks up. It can track my head movement and scales the movement like 1:6. Add that to this with similar scaling of the gun motion and you have a truly immersive experience. I don't know how the average person would be able to use this in their home though as I doubt many people have large sections of blank wall available for gaming. Also, if your arms get tired and you want to keep your gun at your waist, in this example you wouldn't be able to see anything except the ground, but with the head tracker you could still look around.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/11/09

    @homer15:

    yes yes and more yes. the inability to look one way and shoot another has always bugged me, except that there isn't a conventional way of doing it well. some 3rd person shooters pull it off ok, but really, 1st person is where it's at.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    12/11/09

    In reply to Pico Projector Gun Controller Beams First-Person Shooters on Any Surface
    That's real cool except you'd need to be playing inside a white sphere -- note lame example
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    Image of SimonEyez SimonEyez
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    I would play porn on a church wall i think.
    Or an episode of "The Biggest Looser" on the wall/windows of a gym.


    so much fun to get with something like this
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    I sense a Ben Heck-enning.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    when i was 8 i fantasized about having a sega genesis controller with all the guts and a little projector in it. asked my dad about it, who told me it wasn't technically feasible at the time.

    i bet Ben Heck could do it.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    Boom, baby, BOOM!
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    Image of LegacyCrono LegacyCrono
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    "Extreme Gaming" is playing "I Wanna Be The Guy" on Impossible mode, that's the truth.
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    BubbleF**kingBuddy promoted this comment LegacyCrono was starred LegacyCrono was unstarred
    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    12/10/09

    @LegacyCrono: EXTREME GAMING = Fake Difficulty in a joke game?
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    I'm sure he'd love to lose the goggles and helmet. They're not needed, but you'd lose the 'extreme' appearance.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    12/10/09

    @Deckard: You're right, the goggles do nothing.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    This is, most assuredly, the funniest thing I have seen in a while.
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    Image of jokool89 jokool89
    12/10/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: And by funniest you really mean nerdiest! Damn the nerd meter just went up a couple of levels.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    Don't cross the beams!
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/10/09

    In reply to Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
    Ze goggles... Zey do somesing?!
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