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[Nektonico]

I just wanted to share this with you guys because its so cool.

Those of us that remember when you could actually go to a mall and play on a VR game machine, tend to remember it fondly. What happened? The computing horsepower has grown so much, our graphics now days are simply stunning, yet there’s been no major VR revival. Yeah, those helmets were huge and gave you a headache, but it was worth it.  With the 3d positioning abilities of the latest game crazes, the Wiimote and the Kinect, [Nao_u] is finally taking this where we all knew it should have gone(google translated). Well, maybe we would have had less creepy anime faces flying around squirting ink, but the basics are there. He has created a VR system utilizing the Wiimote for his hand position, a Vuzix display for head positioning, and the kinect for body tracking. Even with the creepy flying heads I want to play it, especially after seeing him physically ducking behind boxes in the video after the break. Long live VR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS33cENjyRs

http://hackaday.com/2011/01/25/vr-now-with-more-kinect-wiimote-and-vuzix/

This is the guy's homepage clumsily translated to english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgame.g.hatena.ne.jp%2FNao_u%2F20110121%23p1

Also:Check out his youtube channel, he has a couple of other cool videos using the same tech.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Nao790#p/a/u/1/WDlvn3voblQ

So, what do you think, could VR headsets be the future of gaming displays?  

The folks at SONY seem to think so.
http://www.neowin.net/news/sony-we-are-working-on-virtual-reality-games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy4FURgSRwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoE5ij63EDI&feature=related


You even get to look like robocop. 

DISCUSS  

[Aloshi]

I've been interested in both virtual reality and augmented reality for a while. I think these are the glasses used in that video. $400, but they do already support quite a few games. I hope these kinds of glasses down in price and we start to see a lot of cool VR/AR games.

That said, the blue anime head walking on its HAIR THAT HAD FEET is TERRIFYING.

[moi]

wasn't the dolphin's first prototypes supposed to be a VR helmet intially?
Nintendo dissapoint

[Gimym JIMBERT]

NO unity support? pass

Wait for the wiiU2 with bono.

[unsilentwill]

I want this so badly and I don't know why. Even surfing the internet with those glasses seems worth the money. It's not ready yet though, I'll give it some time.

Maybe I just hate TVs and monitors.

[Nugsy]

support quite a few games.

Game: Day of Defeat
Publisher: Activision

Game: Garry's Mod (CS:Source mod)

Game: Counter Strike: Source
Publisher: Electronic Arts

Game: Trackmania Nations Forever
Publisher: Acclaim

What?! And there are way more than just these 4!

[C.A. Silbereisen]

GIMMICK

[moi]

the future is playing on a touchscreen that looks like a phone while but can't make calls, while watching at a big TV screen at the same time and moving the wiimote with your third hand(WIIU)