WATCH NOW: Revolution technology?

[Crash]

look:

When the real world co-exists with the virtual one, Augmented Reality is revolutionizing the gaming world, as we know it. AR is the technique of merging reality and virtual worlds. Explore the endless possibilities of this technology with a suite of games that features the different aspects of AR. Starting with dancing game with your virtual partner boogieing in front of you, to a maze ball like game that uses physical props to manipulate virtual objects, also a arcade classic 'Frogger' like title in which you can literally walk around virtual 3D 'Frogger' to get the best perspective and more!

This rumor centers on new technologies that would change the way a gamer actually watches a game. To start, here's a brief intro: a fixation point is whatever a gamer stares at most of the time when playing a game. Thing is, most games feature several of these fixation points, so developers have needed to devise methods of including every object on screen at all times. When this wasn't possible, the display needed to shift and prioritize objects according to the action. Developers accomplished this by zooming the image up or down, to help gamers re-focus their attention. Just look at any number of sports games. The camera invariably follows the soccer ball, baseball or football. The document argues that the constant change in perspective makes playing games tougher than it should.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Seth

* Seth ahems


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

Oops. Sorry about that. I really should check the other forums more often. I blame my vegetarianism contrasting with a forum called "The Meatgrinder." Yes...it's plausible.

[Seth]

How long have you been a vegetarian for?


and why?

[Crash]

guying playing quake with augmented reality







not bad for a college student

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Seth

How long have you been a vegetarian for?


and why?

5 years. Started on a whim since I wanted an excuse not to eat my parents' horrible cooking. Now I'm kinda put off by meat. Tried to eat tuna recently. An excruciating experience. Used to love the stuff. Damn my altered brain chemistry.

Plus there was that crazy lady with Afro Chicken. How I miss thee. Can't eat meat when there are nice chickens with afros roaming about the city dodging cars and whatnot.

[Crash]

these are interesting similarities in quotes:

Dr. Cheok on augmented reality:

"Current games are restricted to static and monotonous interfaces where players stayed glued to their seats in front of a screen," says Dr Cheok. "We felt a need to explore into the untapped frontier in human computer interaction where users are immersed physically in the game. We believe that Human Pacman ...has the potential [to] create a new genre of gaming."

Reggie says:

"Well, the concept of a home system today is defined as hardware that you tether to a box and you are tethered to it via a controller"

MORE AR VIDEOS:

http://www.hitlabnz.org/route.php?r=...vies#arvolcano

http://www.mic.polyu.edu.hk/mr/

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/research/augm/augmented.html

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/movies/Checkers.mpg


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"I think we can come up with something more unique than the Eye-Toy all the time. We really want to be the number one R&D team." -Yoshio Sakamoto (Nintendo R&D1)

Reggie:

Well, the concept of a home system today is defined as hardware that you tether to a box, and you are tethered to it via a controller; we think that's an old paradigm. We think that the consumer wants something much more innovative than that. Coupled with the concept of strong community and immersion into the gameplay, we think that's what we need to deliver on from a consumer propostion standpoint.

it will be 'paradigm shift in [game] play' with the Revolution," Iwata said in his interview with Kyoto's popular local newspaper.

"This won't be a continuation, but rather something entirely different," Nintendo Senior Managing Director Yoshiro Mori

"What we need is not a next-generation machine but a next-generation way of playing games," Iwata commented. "We need to propose a new idea so that the game industry can overcome its current crisis."

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. On stage at Nintendo's pre-E3 2004 press conference, Iwata said: "Different also defines our approach to our next home system. It won't simply be new or include new technologies. Better technology is good, but not enough. Today's consoles already offer fairly realistic expressions so simply beefing up the graphics will not let most of us see a difference. So what should a new machine do? Much more. An unprecedented gameplay experience. Something no other machine has delivered before."

Genyo Takeda said: "You'll be able to play [Revolution] not just by linking up to a television but to a computer monitor as well."

[Jonbo298]

Good finds to interesting quotes there Crash. Seems to lead to the possibility that this could be what Nintendo was talking about. +rep

[Canyarion]

I've been a veggie all my life.

And that stuff is pretty nice, but you'll need to wear goggles.

[Jonbo298]

Well, yeah you have to wear goggles Canya. You can't just implant this into your eyes/brain

[GameMaster]

The video was amazing! That was cool how his flower suddenly turned into a lightsaber!

[Dyne]

That was a very cool video, but the guy's accent put me off.

[Solid Snake]

IGN interviewed Toyota Ken with Nintendo on Feb. 3rd, he basically confirms that Nintendo revolution will be a different way of playing games than we are used to. Also said they don't know if it will playable at E3 this year, may just show what they are planning to do.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/585/585005p1.html

[Crash]

Nintendo is taking baby steps. Developers tell me that meaty details on the console will be handed out at the upcoming Game Developers' Conference in March. Revolution development kits may be seeded at the same time, according to sources. But in an industry where perception is so important, Nintendo is much more likely to gain support when it publicly unveils the console at E3 this May.

cool, big announcements next month!


http://cube.ign.com/articles/587/587028p1.html