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| RandyT:
Since I had it apart, I thought it would be irresponsible of me not to take pictures of the camera....:) So, what kind of camera has a transmit, receive, and reset lines? Firewire? RandyT |
| jelwell:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 05, 2006, 03:13:08 pm ---Real light guns (when working properly) track in real-time, so the games designed to be played with a real light gun are designed with this in mind. What that ultimately means is, by using this gun, you will be playing at a disadvantage. --- End quote --- Are there any consumer light guns that track in real-time, other than the LCD TopGun? I know arcade games like Ghost Squad offer real-time tracking. But every gun I've ever seen, available to consumers, can only track when you pull the trigger. That's hardly real-time, that's more like click-time. Real time is continuous, it doesn't stop when, oh wait time just stopped while I was typing - nevermind. Joseph Elwell. |
| ChodTheWacko:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 06, 2006, 02:41:35 pm --- --- Quote from: ChodTheWacko on February 06, 2006, 12:12:15 pm ---I was also thinking, where is the LED camera? Is it inside that little hole in the gun? What happened if you drilled that hole a little bigger? Wouldn't that give the camera a wider viewing angle? --- End quote --- This is kind of like saying "maybe I could see better if I drilled holes in my eyeballs to make my pupils bigger" Like your eye, this thing has an optical system. There is a lense and a sensor. Messing with any part of it, particularly destruction of the lense, will only render it inoperable. --- End quote --- I didn't mean to imply that the sensor should be touched at all. Let me rephrase my question. The sensor isn't on the outside of the camera, it's inside that hole. It seems pretty consistent that if the LED strips are X inches apart, you need to stand 2*x feet back. If you do the math that's about a 50 degree viewing angle for the sensor on the gun. Now, my thought is, is the viewing angle 50 degrees because the sensor only has a 50 degree field of view? Or does the sensor natively have a wider viewing area, but it is 50 degrees only because it has 'tunnel vision' since it's inside a hole/tube? (similar to how your field of vision is restricted when you look through a tube). If it's the latter than making the hole bigger can widen the viewing angle of the sensor. You would think that if you angle the LEDs towards the gun, you should be able to stand fairly close to the monitor. |
| ErikRuud:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 06, 2006, 03:51:20 pm --- Since I had it apart, I thought it would be irresponsible of me not to take pictures of the camera....:) So, what kind of camera has a transmit, receive, and reset lines? Firewire? RandyT --- End quote --- How difficult was it to dis-assemle? How hard will it be to re-assemle? |
| Santoro:
--- Quote ---So, what kind of camera has a transmit, receive, and reset lines? Firewire? --- End quote --- TX and RX are serial terms from my experience so my bet goes with Universal Serial Bus. This bolstered by the fact that its a USB device ;) I probably misunderstood the actual question that was being asked. |
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