I usually love me some FPS games but there’s something off putting about fake shooting up the real world in Google Maps Street View with an assault rifle. Try it out yourself, put a location Pool Worldwide and start shooting fake real people and things in Google Maps. Is it weird for you? More »
James Cameron loves 3D a whole lot, and he’s still passionately pushing for cinemas to adopt 60 frame per second projection, arguing it’ll make for better 3D. More »
Novint, the folks behind that most curious Falcon peripheral, are back again with yet more hardware curios. This time, it’s the ability to turn your arm into a motion-controlled rumble pack. More »
\ Tom Guilmette was playing around and testing out the Phantom Flex camera in his hotel room one night and had so much fun he never got any sleep. Watch coins fall, water drip and, my personal favourite, a BlackBerry jiggle in the video above. I wish we could slow down time like this whenever we wanted to. [Vimeo via Engadget] More »
We’ve seen augmented reality put ads on buildings and give cars superpowers. But when applied to a first-person shooter game like in this video? That’s taking the intensity up just a notch or 10. More »
We’ve featured a few XCM branded gaming accessories here before, but this is the first one in a while that’s not a PS3-to-Xbox 360 adaptor or arcade stick. This here is a PS3 light gun, with motion controls. More »
Redneck Techie’s vision for a pico projector Wireless Game Gun has been realised… by Microvision. As you can see, the controller allows gamers to break free from their fixed screens and project the battle on any surface. More »
Google Maps added a transit layer to its terrain and sat and road views today for viewing bus, train and ferry lines, etc. There’s no NY support, but these 50 cities are covered:
It has been almost a year since we first heard that Novint would add a pistol grip accessory to their 3D Haptic Joystick—but the update has yet to hit the market. Nonetheless, Wired got a chance to play a few FPS games with the add-on and were blown away by the level of feedback and control, saying that it completely changes the experience. Targeting was precise, and each gun used in the game takes on a different recoil intensity—which can sometimes be violent when dealing with high calibre weapons. There is also a steep learning curve with the haptic controls.
While controlling a deadly robot sounds enticing to anyone, the military wants to make sure that they are achieving maximum kill. And adding a HARV (Head-Aimed Remote Viewer) to these robots is massively effective. Essentially a robot version of your own neck and head sitting on a robot, the system provides a “look around” first person shooter control that boosts a remote operator’s overall performance by 300-400%,. Here’s a really excellent video demonstration of the HARV in action:
