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| RandyT:
Very interesting. From the YT video, there appears to be a camera pointed at the screen, and the wireless gun looks to be pulsing an IR laser. My guess from the limited information available, is that the camera would need to be a fairly specific distance from the screen and calibrated to it's borders. It would then pick up the laser reflected from, or scattered by the screen to map out the shot placement. Being IR, the actual imagery from the display shouldn't interfere. Seems like a simple and effective approach, but may not work with all types of TV/monitors. The external camera would also limit the types of installations it is suited for. But if it works well, it could be a great solution for those with projectors, and I'll certainly be keeping my eye on it. I've always dreamed of being able to use an accurate light gun with life-sized targets. |
| Titchgamer:
Playing a lightgun game on a projector would be fricking amazing! |
| pbj:
Pretty cool to see all these new options coming soon. |
| Titchgamer:
--- Quote from: pbj on July 30, 2018, 12:42:50 pm ---Pretty cool to see all these new options coming soon. --- End quote --- I hope they come soon! Seems to be more and more games landing by the month. I got elevator action going yesterday! |
| SammyWI:
--- Quote from: RandyT on July 30, 2018, 12:35:17 pm ---Very interesting. From the YT video, there appears to be a camera pointed at the screen, and the wireless gun looks to be pulsing an IR laser. My guess from the limited information available, is that the camera would need to be a fairly specific distance from the screen and calibrated to it's borders. It would then pick up the laser reflected from, or scattered by the screen to map out the shot placement. Being IR, the actual imagery from the display shouldn't interfere. Seems like a simple and effective approach, but may not work with all types of TV/monitors. The external camera would also limit the types of installations it is suited for. But if it works well, it could be a great solution for those with projectors, and I'll certainly be keeping my eye on it. I've always dreamed of being able to use an accurate light gun with life-sized targets. --- End quote --- Well now that's interesting. I've been messing with this basic idea for a while now both as a shooting range simulator and for shooting games. An open source program called ShootOff works pretty well with a webcam with both visible and IR lasers. Getting a webcam without an IR filter is a pain but possible. ShootOff has it's own shooting range simulator and a mode called shot to click that just passes a mouse click through. Unfortunately shot to click has not worked in MAME or any other emulator I've tried. Pretty much just works with browser based games. Another approach I'm trying is another program called Wiimote Whiteboard. This uses a Wiimote as the IR camera for instructors to "write" on a projector screen with a "pen" that has an IR LED at the tip. This program can also produce a mouse click which is all I need. A 10mw IR laser works in place of the LED on a projector screen. (be an adult, be careful, don't point IR lasers at eyes, pets, mirrors, bla, bla, bla.) This program also won't work with any emulator I've tried. But works well with most standard Windows programs and browsers. It is also finicky about connecting to a PC - Bluetooth only - blech. This is all for a projector screen setup only so kind of limited in its' appeal here maybe. |
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