WATCH NOW: Revolution technology?

[Teuthida]

Total Immersion's Augmented Reality

http://www.demo.com/demo/demonstrato...ideo/total.asx <- Watch

http://sonix.sdv.fr:8080/ramgen/arte...3/immersion.rm <- Watch if wanna see some more.


Wow

Imagine if this is what the revolution will have. Even if it doesn't this is extremely prodigious. I want to have a little 3D pikachu running around my room...would be so much fun to torment my dog...

Holy crap...I keep editting this topic as I watch more of the video...I'm dumbfounded.

Ok higly doubt would be used in next gen's consoles. But imagine the future. Huge stadiums for pokemon battles with fully 3D realistic life sized pokemon at your command. Or something like Megaman EXE or Angelic Layer or Yu-Gi-Oh.

Ok, so they're not holograms or real virtual reality. Would need goggles or another screen to see the 3D objects and real world meshed together but cool nonetheless.

[Jonbo298]

WOW, for being 2005, this is just an awesome first step to the "next gen" of VR. If Revolution has anything like this and is affordable, it could be a serious contender next gen.

But I can't wait for this stuff to become affordable where most people can have it because this is gonna ultimately taking gaming to "the next level"

[Jason1]

Very impressive...most of the way through that video I was under the impression you'd just see that stuff on the screen...meaning see yourself on screen, along with the room and real and fake things, all ON SCREEN...which would be pretty impressive in itself for 3D things on screen to be able to interact with real objects in the room...but then I realised its so much more than that...

Those things are actually THERE...not on a screen, but there in front of your face. I wonder how many projectors that took to do that?

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Those things are actually THERE...not on a screen, but there in front of your face. I wonder how many projectors that took to do that?

I got the impression that it was only on the screen.

[Blackmane]

No, I think Jason is right. They are actually there.

[Teuthida]

Yeah, they're only on the screen as can be seen in the 2nd video. They seem to actually be there in the first because the film you're watching combined the real world and 3D objects. So instead of watching a camera recording a screen as in the first you're cutting out the middleman.

[Jonbo298]

Yet surprisngly its not.

[DimHalo]

It seems to me that it is all right there in front of you. Although I don't entirely understand it, it is very cool looking.

[Crash]

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, that is the coolest thing I have ever seen!!!!!

But I think it is only on screen...

maybe this could be part of revolutions technology.


remember that fixed point of view patent they made?

[Typhoid]

It could be better.


I say that despite the fact its effing amazing.

There are the obvious VR glitches, like the layering. With the rose its in front of his left hand a couple of times. They need to fix that, and I'm sure thats up on the list.

It could be alot better. Honestly, it could. At some points it looks like pure crap. Again, I say pure crap despite the rest of the awesomeness.

[Acebot44]

That's pretty cool. I wanna see more examples!

[Crash]

watch this to see how it works:


http://computer.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm

You can expect video games to drive the development of augmented reality, but this technology will have countless applications.

For a wearable augmented reality system, there is still not enough computing power to create stereo 3-D graphics. So researchers are using whatever they can get out of laptops and personal computers, for now. Laptops are just now starting to be equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs).

Toshiba just added an NVidia GPU to their notebooks that is able to process more than 17-million triangles per second and 286-million pixels per second, which can enable CPU-intensive programs, such as 3-D games. But still, notebooks lag far behind -- NVidia has developed a custom 300-MHz 3-D graphics processor for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox game console that can produce 150 million polygons per second -- and polygons are more complicated than triangles. So you can see how far mobile graphics chips have to go before they can create smooth graphics like the ones you see on your home video-game system.

Practical portable 3-D systems won't be available until at least 2005, said MacIntyre. His research lab is currently using a ThinkPad to power their mobile augmented-reality system. The top ThinkPads use an ATI Mobility 128, 16-MB graphics chip.

so 2006 shouldn't be a problem if nintendo wanted to do something like this on a machine...

and where is that patent with the nintendo point of view patent?

Gaming - How cool would it be to take video games outside? The game could be projected onto the real world around you, and you could, literally, be in it as one of the characters. One Australian researcher has created a prototype game that combines Quake, a popular video game, with augmented reality. He put a model of a university campus into the game's software. Now, when he uses this system, the game surrounds him as he walks across campus.

[Crash]

people are already making games [IMG]with it:

Majong



what the players see overlayed in their goggles:



VIDEO: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/.../mah-jongg.avi
and that was in 1998, 7 years ago
one hell of a new style of mario party

[Seth]

/me ahems

http://www.gametavern.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10652

[Jonbo298]

I thought Ati was making the video card/chipset for MS's next console?