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TheAdMan:
I already stated that a 5 foot limit would be perfect as far as I'm concerned I don't want to stand ten feet away from the screen, is that how you play a shooter in the arcade? - no. :angry:
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 08:36:16 pm ---I think your just being stubborn.
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Oh OK I suppose that Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Honda... etc etc were also being stubborn when they abandoned development of all such systems, because they couldn't make them work in the application you want them to.
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 08:36:16 pm ---and the trackIR does a lot more than provide left or right instruction.
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No... you missunderstand.... It's providing positional information. But in the examples shown it's not having to provide it at accurate real world resolution. It's providing scalable left right (plus 5 other axis) movement but it's not providing it related to the real world flat front face of the monitor or in relation to any particularly specific pixel resolution.
Understand that it's just not going to work, no matter how much you want it to.
And all this because you don't want to stick the LED Stands onto your monitor.
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 08:41:19 pm ---I already stated that a 5 foot limit would be perfect as far as I'm concerned I don't want to stand ten feet away from the screen, is that how you play a shooter in the arcade? - no. :angry:
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Well you clearly have not set up a Topgun correctly then... because mine works perfectly well at less than 5 feet from the screen. And actually if you measure the distance to screen, or even the percieved distance to screen in a real arcade you'll find it's actually more than 5 feet.
As for it being perfect for you, just because it's right for you, doesn't mean it is for everybody else. So in producing these with a ridiculous 5 foot distance limit they'd be killing a large chunk of potential market anyway. So what you're suggesting is actually that anybody with a large (over 21") screen or projector shouldn't be catered for.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
TheAdMan:
^^^^that's why I'm asking.
You may be right but I'm not trying to argue technology here, I'm asking if it could be done would people buy it that's all. If a developer feels like they can do something, I think they should give it a try.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 08:55:24 pm ---You may be right but I'm not trying to argue technology here
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Well actually you were.... but I'll let that one go.
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 08:55:24 pm ---If a developer feels like they can do something, I think they should give it a try.
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Yes, and as I already pointed out to you, Sega, Namco, Nintendo, Sony and Honda already have done and after pouring millions of dollars into trying to get it to work, all decided that it was better to put the widely spaced IR LED's round the monitor and the camera in the gun because by doing that you instantly solve 99% of the problems.
Not to mention the Firehawk, which was cancelled for all of the above reasons. It's simply not possible to achieve the result you want, at the accuracy needed, within a budget that the very small market for these will stand. Sorry to tell you this but their accountants were right. It'd be commercial suicide to try it.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
TheAdMan:
Why are you sorry? It just means you move on to the next idea.
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