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Gaming on the IMAX
JavaTenor writes "The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA, is holding the 1st Annual MaxGames tournament on August 15, 2002. The final matches for each game will be held on the IMAX Dome screen, so if you've ever wanted to play Halo eight stories high, this is the event for you."
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personally, i would rather play a god type game with that perspective... GTA, Warcraft 3, etc.
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If you want to play Halo 8 stories high, all you have to do is stack up 8 Xboxes. ;)
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I prefer PS/2 on my Sony 61" projection TV coupled with a serious surround sound system and a couple of blunts and bumps.... Nothing beat that ;-)
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...will they have enough processing power to run at a resolution high enough so it's not a massive blur for the person gaming?
I want to play Dead or Alive 3 on this... nothing like seeing chicks in super high res ;-)
I saw an IMAX movie about Kilimanjaro in the Natural History museum.. it looked great when they were in the rain forests and stuff, but after a while it became so boring that I literally fell asleep.
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WOW! What an amazing way to illustrate what low fidelity images are provided on your television than to blow them up onto the IMAX screen :)
I think IMAX is really cool, but things not designed to play on an IMAX screen don't necessarily translate well. The IMAX screen over at Navy Pier in Chicago does showings of various non-imax movies during weekends at midnight. So, some friends of mine and I went to see the Matrix there.
The problem is that it was filmed for being shown in a normal theater. So all of the quick cuts are just totally overwhelming on that screen. Furthermore, the images end up being rather grainy because the scale is so much bigger than is natual. And if you happen to see it on a dome IMAX, then you've got that as another impact on it. The sound was awesome, but man it's hard to watch.
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Halo 8 stories high...a 30 foot soldier running around trying to figure out how to aim.
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My experiences with IMAX movies have so far been a little disappointing. So far they come across as slow 20 minute documentaries intermixed with a few seconds of truly impressive, IMAX-exploiting, gut-wrenching fun. Show me the cool stuff! Mess with my head! Let me 'feel' like I'm doing something I wouldn't do in real life!
Maybe if the IMAX theaters are opening up to allow such 'adolescent' activities such as a video game competition, they'll start to broaden their selection of movies and relax their conservative death grip.
We can always hope anyway.
Even at HDTV resolution, each pixel will be several feet across, no? Won't this look kinda bad? People weren't real thrilled with AOTC in digital theaters because they could see the pixels. This will be worse.
;-) why would you do this?
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God, playing Gran Tourismo 3 on something that large would be larger then life!
Too bad I live in Florida and don't have the money to fly over there to participate.
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I would imagine the violent urges caused by these violent games would be amplified by seeing them on a large screen, and probably not just in a linear fashion either.
If playing doom on a 21inch monitor caused (say) 100 casualties, and an IMAX screen is (say) 800x800 inches, by my calculations, playing HALO on an IMAX screen will directly cause around 16000 deaths.
Do they really want this on their consciences ?
My friend and I have always wanted to do something like this (the big projection thing). Just borrow the projector and point it on the side of a building. If we hadn't been so fast to return the project after the senior (high school) banquet we would've had dreamcast unreal tounament on a screen 30 ft. diaginal. Although at a school dance I helped DJ we did have a 35 ft diagonal projection of Crazy Taxi 2, more people were watching the player play than dance.
This sounds a little better then it will be in reality. The San Jose 'IMAX' theatre is in fact an OmniMax or Dome theatre format. The 180 degree (ish) * 360 degree (ish) view giving you pretty much full periferal vision if you look straight at the center. Not the super resolution rectangular 5 story high IMAX format that would make for some awsome gaming! They will either display the games on a small awkwardly stretched rectangle or stretch it beyond recognition over the whole screen.
The sound system on the other hand features 6 channel 13000 watts of quad-damage (to your ears as much as your avatar) coming from 44 speakers.
Haha, I hope that the IMAX has some backup projectors, just in case...
Just wait until the Tech Museum tries to charge you after you burn in your game images on their projector!
It's a shame that there are no 1080i games out for XBox yet. This would be a good place to demo some of the Hi-res games tht XBox can do.
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I always have to take it to the next level.
Well, if he's into "bumps", his penis is probably shriveling. I'd type more, but I have to go jack off on my Land Rover.
We all know that true 3l33t gamers will say something like "Screw Imax, monoscreen gaming sucks, I use a parhelia and I *need* 3 displays, does IMAX offers 3 screens gameplay? no! so it's already obsolete HA!".
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Sure, the novelty aspect is fun, but having an 8-story screen means having a screen you have to move your eyes and head to see all of. Movement at what would be the edges of the monitor might not be noticed until well after that movement has shot you...
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Has anyone ever tried to play quake or cs with a projector? (The wall screen kind) It seriously made me want to puke, as well as suck. I used to have to take a dramamine before playing descent. Perhaps it's time to get back into the habit.
Heh. On a most remotely related note, anyone else ever try to land a plane after forgetting to get the non-drowsy kind of dramamine? It's much fun.
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I remember playing Doom on a projection screen at work years ago (okay so the training room was empty and I was supposed to be setting up the network, but you've gotta 'test' these things somehow) and it was great
I agree with previous comments about how well these games will scale up tho. It will certainly be interesting to see which console (and game) ends up coming out on top in terms of eye-candy on screens this size...
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[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as âoeTaco-snotting,â or simply âoesnotting.â Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help [adequacy.org] before it is too late. â"ed.]
Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself âoeCmdrTacoâ?
You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert âoeCmdrTacoâ Malda [cmdrtaco.net], owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org [slashdot.org]. Actually, itâ(TM)s not a very âoepopularâ site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies [yahoo.com], and other societal rejects and outcasts. Itâ(TM)s also home to one of the worldâ(TM)s largest suspected pædophile rings, the infamous âoeSlashdot crew.â
Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnâ(TM)t, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyoneâ(TM)s guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youâ(TM)re a potential candidate.
This time, he found you. Lucky you.
Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?
CmdrTacoâ(TM)s code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thatâ(TM)s right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdotâ(TM)s parent corporation, VA Software [yahoo.com]. Mr. Maldaâ(TM)s âoeCommanderâ is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldaâ(TM)s own lubed-up right hand. His âoeTaco bells [sonymusic.com]â are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his âoeTaco sauceâ is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to âoering his Taco bellsâ or âoetaste his gourmet Taco sauce.â
I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as âoeTaco-snottingâ and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a âoecircle-snot.â
Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is âoeTaco-snottingâ?
âoeTaco-snottingâ is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacoâ(TM)s face [go.com], dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, âoeTaco-snotting.â
And if thatâ(TM)s not bad enoughâ¦
A âoecircle-snotâ is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew [bastardgenres.com]. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel [aol.com], and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum â" spooging their jizz-snot all over each otherâ(TM)s faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyâ(TM)re covered head to toe with their own and each otherâ(TM)s man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each otherâ(TM)s spunk and whip each otherâ(TM)s pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.
Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?
Hopefully, but I wouldnâ(TM)t count on it.
To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the âoeWilling to Snotâ checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and heâ(TM)s probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Thereâ(TM)s no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so itâ(TM)s probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacoâ(TM)s sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to âoeWilling to Snot.â Maybe heâ(TM)ll ignore you. Probably not.
I canâ(TM)t stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?
If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, hemight leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge⦠oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).
Have you ever been Taco-snotted?
Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention [amazon.com]. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some âoegourmet Tacos,â but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his âoeCommanderâ out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm⦠then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, âoeOpen Sauceâ â" man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known überfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass [yahoo.com] with his âoemonolithic kernel [yahoo.com];â his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their âoenetwork stackâ in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about âoeall those Censorware [spectacle.org] freaks out to get him.â
That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?
After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant â" I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Iâ(TM)m just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had alot of built-up spunk in their wads â" I couldâ(TM)ve easily been drowned!
Thatâ(TM)s horrible. Does âoeTaco-snottingâ have anything to do with CmdrTacoâ(TM)s âoespecial tacoâ?
No, thatâ(TM)s a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll [slashdot.org] has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership [slashdot.org] about this vile practice (emphasis added):
You may be wondering what CmdrTacoâ(TM)s âoespecial tacoâ is. You will be wishing that you hadnâ(TM)t been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his âoespecial taco,â CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his âoeCommanderâ), puts his âoespecial taco sauceâ on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacoâ(TM)s jizz?
After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacoâ(TM)s nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victimâ(TM)s ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy [goatse.cx]. Donâ(TM)t let it be you!
Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert âoeCmdrTacoâ Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.
Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.
Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. Heâ(TM)s also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnâ(TM)t involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doesâ(TM)t mean heâ(TM)s any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called âoejuicy-douching [aol.com]â with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boyâ(TM)s urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boyâ(TM)s chained, naked bodies. If heâ(TM)s in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass [microsoft.com] onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.
Not content with being a pædophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arenâ(TM)t enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goatâ(TM)s anus [yahoo.com]. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goatâ(TM)s small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.
â¦Are you getting hard writing this?
Why, yes.
No, thanks. Iâ(TM)m already CmdrTacoâ(TM)s boi toi.
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Here is a clear illustration of why graphical
implementations should be mathematically
represented (scalable). Works on a 320x200 as
well as an infinite resolution IMAX.
How Big is the IMAX Screen?
A: The IMAX theater screen is a huge wrap around dome. We'll be able to project the games onto an image about 40' by 60'.
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Maybe it's just me, but aside from the resolution problems of blowing an NTSC display up to OmniMAX sizes, seeing Virtua Fighter $(N) on an OmniMAX screen just doesn't make me want to get up and check out the competition. NFL Fever? Please. The X-style games (Tony Hawk, SSX Tricky) and racing games (Gran Turismo) might possibly be interesting.
OTOH, if you want to get me to claw my way to the head of the line, all you have to do is set up nearly any of the Star Wars spaceflight games (Star Wars Starfighter, XWing Alliance, etc.). Crank the resolution to 1280 * 1024 * 32bpp and even on an IMAX screen it would look stunning. Go the extra mile and compensate for the spherical projection surface, and you could have a major spectator attraction on your hands ("Come ride shotgun in an XWing fighter as some of the best gamers on the planet go after the Death Star").
I've always wanted to experience a truly immersive space flight simulator. XWing Alliance on an OmniMAX screen would do it.
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I'd like to see this on an imax screen
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
Yes, actually, I believe US West pilots HAVE had that experience, though not w/ the same drug.
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I hope the theater has barf bags...
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Pixelization
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Each pixel should be a about an inch tall, assuming 800x600 resolution.
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iMAX pron in 3-D would be pretty damned scary. Remember the porn theatre episode of "WKRP"?
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Remember to bring the barf bags. I once played Descent II using a 4'x6' projector screen. I damn near vomitted out my ears after that.
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Fuck gaming, I'd rather see an orthoscope go somewhere fun on an Imax!
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I've always dreamt of playing an FPS with one of them goggles that shines a laser beam directly onto the retina, thus making full use of the field of vision physiologically possible.
Pixels as big as my head! Can't wait!
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The funny thing about the movie [The Wizard] was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played [a beta version of Super Mario Bros. 3]
She says: "Find a warp!" There were warp zones in the first three Super Mario Bros. games (SMB 1, SMB 2: The Lost Levels, and SMB 2: Mario Madness).
like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was ....
She says: "Use the flute!" Jimmy played a metric buttload of NES games to prepare for the competition. The puzzles in those games typically fell into cliché patterns. It's not likely that he never touched Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, which included warp whistles that even played the same tune.
What ticked me off with respect to the final round of that movie was how Jimmy got points just for warping to world 4 Giant Land. None of the Super Mario Bros. games give you points for warping. And the game didn't seem to have the concentration game yet. SMB 3 gives the player a concentration game (called "N-spade" by some players) after every 80,000 points; Jimmy finished with 81,520. Yes, I'm sick enough to remember that.
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anyway -- playing games on that would be rediculously hard. the point of IMAX is so that your entire peripheral vision is occupied. except that in games etc, the part of the screen which is now at the far end of your p.vision actually conveys important information... so i would imagine this won't come out too well.
but it's all about the bragging rights afterall, i guess.
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I used to run the network for a big architecture firm. We had a nice conference room with a 12-foot rear-projection glass screen, and an LCD projector in the room behind. On weekends we'd often have LAN parties, so one day I decided to drag my box into the room.
Man, I lasted about 3 minutes, and I thought I was going to puke. Staying as far from the screen as possible, I still had to move my head side-to-side to see all the action, and I had bad-ass motion sickness.
The resolution was actually pretty good, even for the 800x600 projector - no real pixelization. I wouldn't do it again, though. On an IMAX I bet it would be even worse.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
I'm not sure of the whens or whys... but for the past few years, most OmniMax installations are now called "IMAX Dome". The IMAX.com website has information on both formats.
Perhaps the IMAX folks have their fingers in the OmniMax market now, too.
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While I'd imagine The Tech will be open late for the mature gamers (mature games start at around 5 PM) I find it odd that The Tech normally closes at 6 PM.
I don't know how many times I've been in San Jose for a convention, usually less than a few blocks from The Tech, but have been unable to go because they close at 6.
San Jose, the city that's alive way into the wee hours of the morning...
*sigh*
Is this just a single person playing on one huge screen? Or would that be a bunch of smaller screens, one for each contestants?
With a screen that large, they could easily project 9+ screens of gameplay. Might be interesting. I've always thought video/computer games should be available as a spectator sport. I guess that's one way to do it, although not the 'bring it to the masses' that I would hope to see one day.
If I were to undertake a project such as this, I'd set up a central larger viewscreen run much like spectator sports are today - with a director choosing which feed to show (first person views to 3rd person cameras placed around the level) with each individual's play screen lining the sides.
I'm feeling a bit better about playing games on my big screen -- I've always kept the contrast/picture and brightness low, and I'll continue to!
Trust me, games are _way_ more fun when you can play them comfortably from 10 feet away from the TV!
Halo is choppy as it is, anything larger and the XBox is too outdated. Maybe for XBox2, but who will want to buy that..
Those mid-story-skull-bug-ear-wing-things would be ultra-creepy if you could see them parabolic style. Ripping thru that scene on IMAX if rez wuz good wood be super-thanks-for-asking. Pass the shotgun baby!
IMAX is Flat, OMNIMAX is a dome, like here. So is it a Omnimax or Imax?
Screw Halo! Imagine playing PONG on this thing
You may laugh, but that sure brought back a memory. Back in 1981 I was in college and working at the student union setting up for a concert later that evening when one of the building's directors wheels in this big, bulky thing and starts to roll down the 20-foot diagonal movie screen. Come to find out it was a new projection TV system. (Films were popular on campus, so the thinking was why not project videos, too?)
A lightbulb went off and I asked "What does it use for inputs?"
"Basically any NTSC source; there's antenna connections and RCA jacks."
Within 15 minutes' time, I'd hooked up my Atari 800 (*) to the projector and to the concert sound system (1000 Watts!) and started Star Raiders(**). The explosions were deafening, and when I launched into hyperspace, it sounded like a jet was taking off in the student union! Got to play for almost an hour until some students complained they couldn't study.
(*) That was a 6502 (8-bit) system. IIRC it ran at 2 MHz; had 8 KB of memory; display was in color and capable of 12 rows of 40 characters. It was pretty advanced at the time!
(**) Star Raiders was a killer app of the time. Many people bought an Atari 800 (or 400) just so they could play it! It was certainly a big factor in my decision.
sounds cool. but how well will it work (speed, hi-res)? my system runs slowly on a 1600x1200 desktop, so how well will the XboX work on 8 million x 6 million?
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While not quite up to IMAX standard, most college students can use lecture halls after hours for their own purposes. It's actually quite easy to do. I started by calling the Union and getting the central reservation office number for the university. I admit, it's not eight stories tall, but Quake is quite cool on 30ft screen too. Most major lecture halls have projectors with VGA and RCA in for both computers and game systems. Just a thought if you can't compete in the contest yourself.
And you brought back my memory...
Very similar, in High School, we had a projector that was in the Auditorium where we'd have study halls etc. Well, seeing as a few friends were going in over the weekend for play practice, we decided to show up early, and throw around some Street Fighter 2 on the big screen.
I was definitely in awe. Even though it was pixellated, and a little dim (not the best equipment, even for it's day), having Ryu and Ken as tall as 2 humans was sweet!
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If I had the chance it would be Mech Warrior, any version or a combat flight sim or Perfect Dark (N64)
61 inches? Nah. I'd rather play on my projector. 9 feet of goodness.
Well, some people are talking about a warped image when using an IMAX screen, due to the width of the screen. Perhaps if the Matrox card was out... with the Surround Gaming feature, it may actually look ok, although I don't know about the resolution... Playing Jedi Knight 2 on a huge screen would certainly be cool, though :)
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For my last year of high school I went to a charter school that was housed in St. Paul's (as in Minnesota) old science museum. And lo and behold, they use to have an imax screen. The old imax theatre was transformed into the audiotorium and once a week we held gaming contests. We played all the N64 classics (goldeneye, mario kart, etc. etc.) and all the new X-box games on the huge screen. It was seriously a lot of fun.
The best though, was bringning in our own computers (the school's computers blew hard) and setting up Quake III tourney's, Counter-Strike tournmanets, TFC, and etc, on the school's network. The cool part was, if you weren't playing at any given time you could walk into the auditorium and watch the game spectator style on the huge screen.
I used to work at the Ontario Place tourist trap and would spend lunch watching the movies in the first IMAX theatre in the world.
Without a doubt the older movies are far better then the current efforts. The first IMAX filmmakers had a whole new canvas to draw on and used their abilities to the fullest.
The very first IMAX film was basically a travalogue for Northern Ontario which isn't a place you'd normally go. (Too many mosquitos and not much else) But the makers of "North of Superior" made it visually spectacular with a great soundtrack and an eye for the small details of northern life that translated so well to the large screen.
It was a big kick watching it in a retrospective years later and seeing the same gasping reaction from the audience to the opening sequence...
The little opening titles transitioning to a small square in the middle of the screen with what looks like rushing water behind and a soft folksy acoustic guitar soundtrack that fades out.
Then...
BOOOM! The picture blasts out to fill your entire field of view and you find yourself in a plane skimming fast over a northern lake. Soaring up and banking to the left you fly towards sheer cliffs just missing the edge then violently bank to the right and dive down the other side of the ridge.
Absolute fscking magic.
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Well an IMAX theater can induce nausia (sp) in some people. Watching some jackass play on their own system can be irratating, but on an 8 story dome, my god the jerkiness would make me sick. Image trying (or watching someone try) to run and spin shoot with huge characters and even bigger targets. It is a recipe for a barforama.
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I grew up in Toronto, home of IMAX.
I saw the very first and subsequent 30+ IMAX films long before it became a common fixture at the local cineplex. (We're talking the 70's here)
There may be a bit of nostalgia but I recall the earlier films being FAR more entertaining than the current product.
"Siegfried and Roy"? Please.
"North of Superior" the first, remains my favourite. A mix of dynamic plane and helicopter shots with slow, almost lyric scenes from the North. The kids playing hockey on a snow-coverted street at twilight. The view from a tugboat pulling away from an ice-covered laker.
Last year we were able to watch "Silent Sky" which, while a bit repetitive, remains one of the most outstanding examples of aerial cinema ever produced.
And, although I've seen most of the Shuttle-filmed features, it was the docking scene in "Mission to Mir" that had me sitting there with my mouth hanging open. I haven't seen "Space Station" yet, though...
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I'd rather play Tic-Tac-Toe or some good old Global Thermonuclear War on that screen.
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Yes, but did you get to Star Commander Rank?
Besides, I always used the "Off-by-one" Long range scan trick when I jumped (unless LRS was offline), so I'd have missed the hyperdrive effects.
And the 800 usually shipped with 16k of memory, and you could upgrade to 48k (or do as I did and put 256k bank-switched RAM in, and use a ramdisk).
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There is no such thing. IMAX is an extremly large flat screen that uses a different millimeter film than a normal movie theatre. When you turn it into a dome screen like the article said, it is called OMNI. IMAX is much more widely available. OMNI theatres can be found at such places like the Boston Museum of Science (Mugar Omni Theatre, or Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama (they have IMAX at their other campuses).
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Since a lot of posts are somewhat off-topic, I'll add to that. Most IMAX shows are lame. However, I've seen "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" (on both IMAX and OmniMAX) and it is a GREAT true story of human survival played out in a visually stunning environment. If you ever get a chance to see it, I highly recommend it.
BTW, I much preferred the IMAX over OmniMAX.
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Just think of how much better the game would play if it was 1280i and not 480i (p?)
It would be nice to have some games that ran @ this resolution (for xbox or ps2).
The opportunity for a theatrical videogame didnt offer itself up to me until i reached college. the console at the time was the psx.
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Ill never forget it. I got special permission from the techgoons in the batcave to play anything i wanted in the theater. We watched anime, played games, and generally mucked about. Much to the security gaurds annoyment when i did _indeed_ have a pass to use the theaters.
Games at the time included marvel superheroes, omega boost (WOAH!) and, of course, final fantasy 7. I played most of the way through ff7 in the theater.. and the ending blew my mind.
wow.
of course, there were other varied games and consoles hooked up throughout the year.. even got the snes hooked up a couple times.. starfox was lots of fun.
I only wish i could go back and try it out with Rez.
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Nope. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it, but that doesn't mean I was that good at it! =) As for the memory configuration, I bought mine within a few months of its coming out... I did buy a floppy disk drive a while later as it was so much faster than a cassette tape. Besides it had so much more storage... something like 80K (or was that the Commodore 64? I dunno; it was way too long ago!)
I've still got it around someplace; it'd be interesting to see if it still works.
you should of played with the "fov" setting, its normally set to 90 (an aparent third of normal vision)
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We did, and setting fov to 180 didn't work nearly as planned.
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I would imagine that putting a 180 degree image up on a screen in front of the viewer would never look right to a human. If the screen is flat, it would need to be infinitely wide in order to make a 180 degree angle of vision image look "right".
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At the Exploration Place in Wichita KS, they have an interactive "movie" of sorts. It's all about the body, and includes several mini-games that the audience participates in via buttons on the chair armrests. It was really well done by programmers who work at the museum specifically for creating exhibits and such. Especially fun was cheating against all the junior high kids we were chaperoning. Using the controls of the empty seat beside me, I controlled their ship/laser/bloodcell/etc. away from the goals as my wife used our controls to guide our team to victory.
That was why fov = 180 didn't work. After some mild hacking it looked ok. Custom GL code however worked fine, using skew algorithms.
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You mean like this?
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http://wouter.fov120.com/gfxengine/fisheyequake
I tried this out once with a projector while I was sitting closer to the screen.
Provided you don't crank up the FOV too much, it emulates peripheral vision quite nicely.
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Well, I don't know the graphic model they use, but if it's the one I've seen in textbooks, a 180 degree angle of vision fails because you can't really do it mathematicly. Mathematically, you draw a line segment from the camera eye to some point in the 3-d world. Calculate where that line intersects the plane of the viewscreen and you have the coordinates of where to put that point on the 2-D screen. The problem is that to use that matehmatical model with a 180 degree field of vision, you need the camera to be on the plane of the viewscreen, which then means there isn't a single point where the line segment passes through the viewscreen. I imagine that this ends up being a divide-by-zero in the mathematical model.
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It wouldn't crash, but it would look horribly obscured. They provided a set of GL libs that supposedly mutated the perspective to work. Some times they worked, sometimes they didn't. If we used some GL code that hacked around a bit more than the norm it seemed to have some problems.
If we used their GL lib, and coded something specifically for it it would work awesome. Also, switching it over to the regular GL lib and switching the fov back would also work. Was a lot of fun, but there are a lot of problems running regular applications in a spherical display.
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