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Nudges And Vibrations Enhancing Games
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a New York Times article (registration required) discussing physical feedback advances as they relate to games. According to the piece, "..the physically immersive technology known as haptics is beginning to deliver on the science-fiction dream of interactive alternative realities. Innovations with roots in automotive and medical engineering are making gamers feel a part of their games as never before." As well as more conventional force feedback and vibration devices, companies such as Canesta are working on an "..electronic device to create a three-dimensional image of its surroundings and respond to changes in real time" - could this create a whole new genre of gaming?
..with virtual tilt! Schweeeet.
Get ready, PinBot, here comes the Haptic touch!
must... be... posted...
there!
Is Porn a genre?
What were you expecting?
Up for a game of Existenz anyone?
Here's a couple of haptics for you (Someone seems to have already posted the rez vibrator link):
.. well they really have these and the pages are a little too risque to link to here on /.
http://www.syberpunk.com/images/misc/boonga/ Spank everyone from your ex girlfriend to a child molester!
http://www.fu-fme.com/ Fuck-U Fuck-Me. Fake, but
Four out of six threads so far are about sex games :)
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, the only thing I know is that I was going to post another one.
I guess this one will do instead, right?
I ain't going to pay this any attention until the sex industry gets into it. Literally they have pioneered almost every semi-advanced technology on the interweb this is just going to be the next thing they do....hopefully....
It could at least make HotOrNot more interesting.....
...that like the videotape, the web, and the DVD, the porn industry will be among the first to put this to commercial use and the first to see significant profits.
Hell, I suspect that the Bible was the second thing Gutenberg printed, the first after he printed porn!
"..electronic device to create a three-dimensional image of its surroundings and respond to changes in real time"
I'd put on a windows partition for that!!
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Game Girl Advance was reporting on this (more or less) a while ago. Well, ok, not this exactly, but it's vibration in games at least ;)
Behold the Power of Cheese!
I was gonna post that. I immediately thought of that article when I read this.
"I wonder what it's like living in a constant haze of stupidity" - Hiei, Yu Yu Hakusho
"Could this create a whole new genre of gaming?"
Could it? Yes.
Will it? No, or, not within the forseeable future.
Don't ask questions for which you already know the answer.
Correct me if I'm wrong here...but any user of a regular mouse--or a real life BFG--can also "depress a trigger with the flick of a finger".
Seriously though, I saw this glove at E3, and it looked interesting. But once you learn how to use it, does it really provide more finely tuned control than a mouse/keyboard config? Or a PS2 joypad? Or does it just look cool in a sorta geek chic Johnny Mnemonic way?