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Haptic Battle Pong... Future of Game Interface?
An anonymous reader writes "The Sensable Phantom is a premier force-feedback haptic device and sells for a few thousand dollars now, but when that number comes down, the game industry will be jumping all over the idea of six-degree-of-freedom, precision-force-feedback video games. It looks like Haptic Battle Pong may be the first attempt at a true 6-dof, force-feedback game. It's not Quake, but maybe this is the next big thing in video games?"
This thing has interactive chat room sex toy written all over it.
:-D
Now I can use both hands!!
I thought that was when my brother and I turned to fisticuffs after particularly gruelling sessions on the Atari...
I can see the story now:
SMALLTOWN, INDIANA (AP) -- In a tragic incident in Smalltown, IN, two Smalltown High students have been arrested after breaking 20 windows in their high school by bouching balls off of them repeatedly until they could no longer withstand the force. Preliminary reports indicates that the kids, who belonged to a group called 'The Bouncy Mafia', were wearing trenchcoats and had in their possessions two copies of 'Battle Pong'. State legislators have rushed to ban the game, calling it a grave threat to our schools and the mental state of today's youth.
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Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
Until these things are less than $35, I will just pay the annual fee for the local recreation club and play the real ping pong game. Trust me, I get feed back, sometimes right on my nose. Damn them Indians are good with pongs. :/
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To wear a cup, for those ogc'ers who have their aimbot set on crotch.
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Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
will hustler get a hold of one of these? can you say "attachments"? well the stylus is a little thin.
I want 2D games back.
Paying a grand for a force feedback is chump change. Just sue them for ten million when it gives you carpal tunnel syndrome.
How ya like dat?
What will happen when all games are like this, and you actually have to be good at physical activity and have some degree of real-life hand-eye coordination? Then the jocks will become better at videogames, too. The last refuge nerdly superiority will be cruelly taken away. This could have major consequences, though one of them might be to get said nerds to spend more time doing actual physical activity, whether within a game or not.
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
No kidding. It shows WAY more colors than Q1.
"It's a dark, fast moving plaque on the land from which their is no escape."
I hate those dark, fast moving plaques. I once had an "Employee of the Month" plaque chase me for five blocks before I ducked into a chinese restaurant and lost it...
:)
Carpe Cerevisi - Seize the Beer
Haptic Battle Pong has been around for quite a while. Head down to your local YMCA and play a game of racquetball. ;) Plenty of "haptic feedback" if you get in front of a moving ball. Let's see if this "battle pong" can match that!
You know, something tells me that you're not going to slashdot Google...
Oh, yeah? Wait till the next time that /. runs and artical about the cool stuff google has in its Labs