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Level42:
--- Quote from: escher on March 25, 2006, 07:04:21 am ---
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on March 25, 2006, 06:54:56 am ---Great thread! So you need to stand five feet away? That's not a problem? Are any of you guys using angled tv's in your cabinets? I wondered what kind of influence that had on accuracy.
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The 5' away thing is what caught me offguard about these guns. They suggest being 3x as far away from the setup as the LCD's are apart. So, with a 27" TV, you're talking more than six feet away. That seems a bit much to me.
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As far as I can understand the weirdo American measuring system, 12" = 1 foot. So I take it you calculate like this: 27" x 3 = 81"/12"= 6.75 feet.
However, the 27" represents the diagonal size of the CRT. Since the ratio of an arcade CRT is 4:3 AND considering the fact you can set-up the LED- bars on the smallest sides of the screen (on a horizontal CRT that would mean mounting them on top and on the bottom of the CRT) you can do some good old-fashioned pythagoras calculating and you will know that they should be ABOUT 16.15" (well a little more actualy, they take up some space and need to be along the side, not on top of it) so, let's say 16.5" apart. That would be 16,5 x 3 = 49.5" / 12 = 4.12 feet. A lot less then more than 6 feet.
For everyone in the rest of the world that uses the metric system that would mean about 1, 25 meters. I've got a 25" (64 cm.) so that would mean even less distance. I think that is very workable.
I'd also think that the nearer you are to the screen, the further (more) you would need to move the gun to point in the direction you want to shoot. Since most games require you to change shooting positions very rapidly (that's the whole point right ?), that would mean moving your arm a lot. When you're further away, you only need to move the gun (camera!) a little to reach all the area of the screen, so just need to move your wrist. Of course there's a reasonable limit to this as well....
Anyway all theory, in eager awaiting of the real thing arriving at my home and trying it myself :D Maybe some owners can confirm/deny my theories ?
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Level42 on March 25, 2006, 06:10:10 pm ---As far as I can understand the weirdo American measuring system, 12" = 1 foot.
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It happens to be an "English" Measuring system NOT an American one :angry: .... Inches are part of the Imperial Measurement scale. America just borrowed it.
Let me guess... You're somewhere in Europe...
Here in England, Most people still prefer the English Imperial measurements, and you can take your crummy mm and CM that they try to force us to use, and stick them up your whizway.
:angry: ;) ;D
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
PhoneLine:
There seems to be about a foot in either direction of the reccomended distance I have seen. If your closer, won't work, and if your further, it won't work. You can test it right on the windows desktop and see how well your mouse cursor tracks.
I'm on a 27 inch set and it works between 4 1/2 and 7 feet away. The cord has about another foot and a half, but if I go back more, it won't track as well and gets jumpy. Eveyone's setup is going to be a little different, but between the 25 and 30 inch I guess your most likely to see in cabs, 5-7 feet is probably going to be the distance.
markrvp:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 25, 2006, 10:23:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on March 25, 2006, 06:10:10 pm ---As far as I can understand the weirdo American measuring system, 12" = 1 foot.
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It happens to be an "English" Measuring system NOT an American one :angry: .... Inches are part of the Imperial Measurement scale. America just borrowed it.
Let me guess... You're somewhere in Europe...
Here in England, Most people still prefer the English Imperial measurements, and you can take your crummy mm and CM that they try to force us to use, and stick them up your whizway.
:angry: ;) ;D
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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What is the best unit of measure to use when measureing a whizway? ;D
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: markrvp on March 25, 2006, 11:41:02 pm ---What is the best unit of measure to use when measureing a whizway? ;D
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:laugh2:
The same one you use to measure the intelectual capacity of the politicians who tried to force Metric mm on us.... ;) Apparently they talk out of their Whizways most of the time, or so I'm told.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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