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Virtual Reality With Unreal Tournament

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-kinda-anyway dept.

thegrommit writes: "It seems someone has been hacking the UT OpenGL driver to produce a relatively cheap VR environment. " It's really just another Cave thing, but it's still something to lust after. Imagine using a treadmill instead of pushing the up arrow. If only I was attached to my general pear-like shape.

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  1. Get in shape! by ARColeslaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of those FPS addicts would finally get a decent workout (not just their wrists) if they had to use a treadmill. Nice concept!

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    1. Re:Get in shape! by Mr_Matt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heh...and all those Tomb Raider addicts would get to see what it really takes to jump twice your body height while carrying a shotgun, two Uzis, a priceless and magic gold artifact, and two cantaloupes in your shirt. Does the word "oof" come to mind? :)

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    2. Re:Get in shape! by InnereNacht · · Score: 5, Funny

      "..finally get a decent workout (not just their wrists).."

      Nevermind, I'm not even going to say it.

    3. Re:Get in shape! by abe+ferlman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Heh...and all those Tomb Raider addicts would get to see what it really takes to jump twice your body height while carrying a shotgun, two Uzis, a priceless and magic gold artifact, and two cantaloupes in your shirt. Does the word "oof" come to mind? :)

      Good one - very funny. I mean, where would she put canteloupes with those enormous breasts?

      :)

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  2. Waste of Time by Murdock037 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't going to be particularly interesting until somebody figures out how to stick themselves into a game of Leisure Suit Larry...

  3. real FPShooter simulation by SirSlud · · Score: 5, Interesting

    VR can only take you so far.

    I am curious about extending 'laser tag' like games to include splash damage capabilities, wide beam fire .. basically, to facilitate all the features of modern FPS games into a laser tag like game, including a visor that projects a 3d world exacly the same as your physical 'arena'.

    I'd imagine your walls, floors, etc would have to be set up to instruct your base computer when and where they were hit, and then distribute damage if players are within a blast radius set for the 'weapon' being used by the shooter ... but can anyone divine whether this is technically feasible? Or has anyone attempted something like this?

    I know it sounds like laser tag deluxe, but I'm thinking deluxe deluxe deluxe ... laser tag taken to its utter extreme technological limits. I think that would be cool. Ideas? Comments? Anyone wanna work with me on just laying what this would require, technically, by catalog surfing or whathaveyou?

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  4. Sketchy VR by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While it is "Virtual Reality" none the less the design is very sketchy. To get CaveUT working right you have to do a LOT of tweaking. You will want to have the view rotations and axis in the exact right place. I've seen this in action and it really is not worth the trouble it took to get it working. To tell you the truth it is cool to look at for a little bit but not all that much more fun to play with.

    The mouse/keyboard is really not a good setup for such an immersive environment. Real VR can map the movement of the head to look around and control movement etc with some other mechanism (usually either a handheld device or foot controls). CaveUT doesn't have real time head tracking. To get a real VR experience out of UT would be cool but it would not be cheap and that would defeat the whole purpose of this project (keep in mind it is developed to be an interesting alternative to real virtual reality gaming). The VR games out there now are pretty lame and I admit it would be very cool if they got games like UT and Quake III working very well in VR.

    None the less, the OpenGL code is made for MS Windows only. However it would not be difficult for it to be recompiled for Linux and there is still no version of the driver for the Mac.

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  5. VR = R? by Arkhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, not to be a smart-ass, but...

    "a visor that projects a 3d world exactly the same as your physical arena".

    If it's exactly the same as your physical arena, what are you gaining? And how do you know when it's broken?