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the last model I had from early 2000's actually weighed less than the rift (8 whole ounces total) had head tracking and displays on par with the then current resolutions (not to mention they only cost like 200 bucks), so the current trend seems to be a rubber band and not predictable by anyone

http://www.mindflux.com.au/pro...

The first website I designed & built for commercial purposes is still live, in use, and remains relatively unchanged. It went live back in 1995, when I was 18, and has been up since. I get a chuckle when I check the URL once a year or so and see that it's still there.

mindflux.com.au

Now I still have a couple of joysticks sitting somewhere in the closet, but the real thing was SpaceOrb. Nothing ever beat that for free flight games such as Descent.

I forgot to mention in my last post that "Six Axis" is actually a well-accepted term for motion controllers with these same six degrees of freedom as the Sony controller - were you complaining back when the introduced the SpaceOrb or rallying now against the current Logitech 3-D controllers?

Another term is 6DOF (degrees of freedom) which is a bit more descriptive.

as I found it to be one of the best methods of playing FPS games, especially Descent. While not perfer for other games it had a level of control and ease of control that was hard to match.

The ASCIISphere was a version which existed for the PS2 playstation
http://playstation.video-game-store.info/B00001ZUT U/Agetec-ASCII-Sphere-360.html

Some information on this controller,
http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/spacetec/sorb3 60.html (product information from former seller)

Old review.
http://www.joy-stick.net/reviews/other/orb360.htm

Closest to current support you can get, as in enthusiast who moved it to XP/2000

http://www.planethardware.com/spaceorb/

My bad, it was only a 16-bit ISA connector. I found an old brochure.

This could have some really awesome uses in Teleimmersion and Virtual Reality.

Think about the last videoconference you attended: it was probably a far cry from being face to face. Adding simple stereo vision to that probably would not do much for interacting with your peers. However, a system like the following might change things.

Here's what I'd propose, if I could build my "dream system":

Set up the following:
*Two conference rooms equipped with the cameras mentioned in the article
*Optical See-through HMDs that the users would wear
*A very fast network connection between the two locations
*Software to make it work.

This way, individuals in disparate locations could walk around, talk to each other, and do everything but shake hands. Actually, get one of these and that might even be possible :)

You would also somehow do a similar trick with the audio to enable "private" conversations between individuals sitting next to each other.

This could be the first really useful immersive application. Think about how much travel time would be saved.

Any thoughts?

Virtual I-O's "i-Glasses" have stereo vision and head tracking - why haven't any first-person games been tweaked to support this???

You mean like these?

Well I don't remember Beyond 2000 _promising_ us anything (I do miss that show though) but there have been many products over the years that brought Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) to the consumer marketplace (I'm not even going to get into scientific/educational HMDs here).

All of them have been plagued by motion sickness, dizyness, and eyestrain, not to mention, especially in the consumer marketplace, unrealistic expectations (chalk it up to hollywood and a populace ignorant of technology).

I figure my eyes have gotten bad enough I'm hoping for the full on cyber replacements but that's an even more off topic post.

Anyway, for the momment being my favorites are the Sony Glasstron's mentioned in the post above. Keep in mind there are two models, the Glasstron PLM-S700, which is capable of 800x600 resolution meant for computers, and the Glasstron PLM-A55, which does 800x225 and is meant for portable DVD playback personal widescreen style.

Sony's Pages are:
PLM-S700 PC Glasstron

PLM-A55: Silly bastards have them under camcorder accessories...

An excellent source I found for these and other HMDs is Mindflux though keep in mind prices there are in Austrailian Dollars.

And BTW, I remember a DOS program called Acidwarp that if you used a certain command line switch would dump out several pages of text intructions on how to build exactly this type of device for projecting it's visuals onto a wall.

There is nothing new in the world, only new implementations of old ideas, and newbies discovering the same old shit.

Yep, that would indeed be Kim himself. :)

With the Sony Glasstron, or one of the many choices at Stereo3d,

Anyone have any experience with CPD for mobile wearable use, or 802.11/Blue Tooth for inter office use?