HoloDek Gaming

[GameOver]

Interesting article about 'new' gaming concept.  Comming soon to a theater near you!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050829/ap_on_hi_te/movie_theater_gaming

[shmokes]

The article is pretty short on details.  It mentions things like "spheres" and "halfpipes" without giving any indication whatsoever about what they do or what the experience is like.  I mean, are you skateboarding on this halfpipe or is the screen just shaped like a halfpipe.  If it's just a halfpipe shaped screen.....so what?

[JB]

The article is pretty short on details.  It mentions things like "spheres" and "halfpipes" without giving any indication whatsoever about what they do or what the experience is like.  I mean, are you skateboarding on this halfpipe or is the screen just shaped like a halfpipe.  If it's just a halfpipe shaped screen.....so what?

Screen shape, I believe.

And the point is that it adds immersion. The wraparound screen fills your peripheral vision.
I recommend going out and watching an IMAX film sometime. At a proper domed theater, not a lame flat-screen one. It's a unique experience.

The "sphere" theater would offer motion simulation in addition to the immersion, as they're talking about spining and jerking hte player seat around.




"Most video game players play at home on their computer, game console, or the Internet. But HoloDek officials believe their creation will bring such gamers out of the solitude of their homes."

Yes, because everyone knows that gamers never venture forth from their homes except at gunpoint, and that exposure to sunlight scorches our skin off... 

[ChadTower]

I recommend going out and watching an IMAX film sometime. At a proper domed theater, not a lame flat-screen one. It's a unique experience.

I go to the IMAX all the time.  An IMAX screen is not domed, it is flat and very tall.  You're talking about an OmniTheater.  OmniTheaters happen to show IMAX films a lot, but it's not a real IMAX standard screen.  It's more of a planetarium on which they also show large format films like IMAX.

[JB]

I recommend going out and watching an IMAX film sometime. At a proper domed theater, not a lame flat-screen one. It's a unique experience.

I go to the IMAX all the time.  An IMAX screen is not domed, it is flat and very tall.  You're talking about an OmniTheater.  OmniTheaters happen to show IMAX films a lot, but it's not a real IMAX standard screen.  It's more of a planetarium on which they also show large format films like IMAX.

Actually, it IS an Imax theater.


Imax specs 2 diffrent kinds of theaters, the traditional flatscreen ones and the omni ones.

The omnis are better.


For the record, my local Omni, as all Omnis are, is a dedicated  Imax theater. Corresponding to the Imax standard makes it impossible to use as a planetarium. Most notably, you have chairs where you need your projector to be, since an Imax dome is tilted forward with the chairs on one side and a planetarium dome is horizontal with chairs all around(at least, MY planetarium is).

[shmokes]

Heh....when they said half-pipe I just thought of a skate ramp and imgined it right-side up or upside down, but didn't think of what should have been painfully obvious that it would be laying on its side.

whoops.

[Dartful Dodger]

Heh....when they said half-pipe I just thought of a skate ramp and imgined it right-side up or upside down, but didn't think of what should have been painfully obvious that it would be laying on its side.

I think a movie playing in front, under(or Over), and behind you would be more HoloDekish, than a movie playing left, in front, and right of you.

[hanelyp]

I'm wondering what people would pay for such a gaming experience.  If enough I think it'd be interesting to build and rent out a 'holodeck'.

[GameOver]

I'm wondering what people would pay for such a gaming experience. If enough I think it'd be interesting to build and rent out a 'holodeck'.

I think it'll be interesting to see where this goes.  It may or may not be a success, but it will have a hand in determining the future of leisure gaming for profit.

[RayB]

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