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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Loki on February 13, 2007, 04:08:53 pm
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I just found some pictures on some (I think) Spanish site... so couldn't read it.
It just looks so awesome :o
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5527/amshow15pa2.jpg)
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I'm guessing Mobile Suit Gundam: Bond of the Warfield.
http://games.ign.com/articles/647/647395p1.html
The dome units were created by Namco and have been shown before. This is the first I've seen of a game running in one though.
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That's cool! Cool enough that I would probably buy one if you could play PC games like FPS's and Mech type games on it.
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I think (from memory) they are rear projected with crt projectors, it thats the case then you would certainly be able to hook up the output of a computer to the projector.
then after a little tweak to the FOV parameter and it would be excellent for FPS games (FOV = Field Of Vision)
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Thanks Crowquill ^^
I now wish I was born in Japan :p
FPS on a screen like that... that would be cool!
Aiming with a lightgun :D
An arcade Gundam game, Bond of the Warfield's gameplay consists of two units: a station unit and a terminal unit. The terminal unit features a touch screen panel and is used to obtain new Moblie Suits. Your actual game session takes place in the Station unit, a closed-off pod with a dome-shaped screen and lever and pedal controls designed to make you think that you're actually piloting a Mobile Suit. The game features eight-on-eight, team-based multiplayer one group siding with the Federation while the other sides the Zeon forces
*drool*
Can't really find many screens of it :(
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Definitely an immersive situation. I remember liking Ridge Racer Fullscale because it was like that. It took up your entire field of vision. Here's the flyer for it:
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&id=4695
Using a projection screen and normal vision definitely beats putting on VR headgear.
Have you seen this project?
http://realvirtualcar.blogspot.com/
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That's a cool project :D
I've also seen projects like this with airplanes... often with a projector to a screen or a multi monitor setup in every window with a home made rear projector ^^
It's cool... but stuff like this takes up too much time and space :dizzy:
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That is cool. I wonder how the screen is designed and manufactured? The best though will be when they use lasers straight onto your eyes. (This is actually an idea going back 20-some years.)
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That is absolutely slick.
I just love those full immersive arcades. Just wish I had the money to pay for playing. The local MGM had this one with a HUGE big screen and four player seats inside this room. IIRC, all four players could see what the other was doing.
But it sucked being a poor kid when each round cost $5!! $5 for ten or fifteen minutes of play or $5 for a few hours of SFII wasn't a hard choice to make. Sure did envy those rich kids though.
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I think I just got the inspiration for my next cabnet!
:woot
No fear of upstaging you guys anytime soon as I still have two WIP's to finish first.
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Definitely an immersive situation. I remember liking Ridge Racer Fullscale because it was like that. It took up your entire field of vision. Here's the flyer for it:
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&id=4695
Using a projection screen and normal vision definitely beats putting on VR headgear.
Have you seen this project?
http://realvirtualcar.blogspot.com/
I played the full scale Ridge Racer once at an arcade in NH. $4. Once was plenty.