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Virtual Sword Fighting

Posted by michael on from the sword-sword-revolution dept.

Faeton writes "SIGGRAPH is on, and Extremetech has the scoop on it. From Nvidia's N30 to ATI's monster 4x Radeon 9700 render board, the coolest thing was the virtual sword fighting simulator. With a VR headset and a gyroscopic force-feedback "sword", you could really be the badass knight you've always dreamed of. I want this at a local arcade soon!"

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  1. Re:I watched Highlander a bit too much by zenyu · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Further evidence Darwin, and his theory of natural selection, is indeed, correct.

    I have an ex-girlfriend that used to be a big SCA fan, she has some pretty neat swords and didn't mind using them. She's now married and 5 months pregnant and I long ago decided not to have children, I'd say the odds are good that sword play doesn't hurt your procreative chances. I for one had an ancestor that killed three of his playmates with his first sword, on his 10th b-day no less.

    I'd rather play with that gyro sword from e-tech and you can see where that path has led....

  2. Re:I watched Highlander a bit too much by zenyu · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ok, I'll bite...his _first_ sword? You mean he was given another one after this?

    When he was older, they didn't have prisons back then, so either you were executed or not, and well he was only ten. You weren't allowed to leave the county if you owed money, so not everything got you executed. Someone later in life stuck an ax in his head and he is said to have killed him too, but I guess that was considered legitimite. Archeologists dug up his body a few years ago and verified that he lived long after the ax injury (that is the bone regrew.)