It's actually not made up at all. I don't know the parent poster personally, but Tony's a buddy of mine that I met this summer, and I've seen his degree from SMU on his wall. He's a cool guy, and I think his ideas have a lot of potential. Not really sure why you think that's made up...
I've seen his products and played with them a number of times, and I think there's some market for it. The press that it is getting is pretty sensationalistic. The most interesting product is the pre-configured system (not sure of the actual name). No, it's not revolutionary, but it's a great combination of existing technologies in one box. The 3d effect is pretty cool. You're basically getting the latest 3d equiptment used in industry glued to a nice PC gaming rig with a ton of games pre-installed and a decent LCD projector. They have some cool ways of getting all these items together from their respective manufacturers on the cheap and putting together a cool gaming rig. And I've definitely seen more expensive gaming PCs with less features.
My favorite thing about the system isn't really so much the 3d effect, but the way it can be approached as a video game console. A couple weekends ago we had a bunch of buddies come over to Tony's house, cracked open a few of beers, and spent the night playing with a couple of his demo units. Everyone got a pair of shutter glasses and a wireless joypad, and we played a bunch of games, sometimes with as many as 6 players, on big projector screens. It was easily as fun as any console gaming experience. Hopefully rigs like this will encourage more PC game makers to include split screen and other modes that are good for multiple people playing on one system, something which you normally only find on consoles.
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It's actually not made up at all. I don't know the parent poster personally, but Tony's a buddy of mine that I met this summer, and I've seen his degree from SMU on his wall. He's a cool guy, and I think his ideas have a lot of potential. Not really sure why you think that's made up...
I've seen his products and played with them a number of times, and I think there's some market for it. The press that it is getting is pretty sensationalistic. The most interesting product is the pre-configured system (not sure of the actual name). No, it's not revolutionary, but it's a great combination of existing technologies in one box. The 3d effect is pretty cool. You're basically getting the latest 3d equiptment used in industry glued to a nice PC gaming rig with a ton of games pre-installed and a decent LCD projector. They have some cool ways of getting all these items together from their respective manufacturers on the cheap and putting together a cool gaming rig. And I've definitely seen more expensive gaming PCs with less features.
My favorite thing about the system isn't really so much the 3d effect, but the way it can be approached as a video game console. A couple weekends ago we had a bunch of buddies come over to Tony's house, cracked open a few of beers, and spent the night playing with a couple of his demo units. Everyone got a pair of shutter glasses and a wireless joypad, and we played a bunch of games, sometimes with as many as 6 players, on big projector screens. It was easily as fun as any console gaming experience. Hopefully rigs like this will encourage more PC game makers to include split screen and other modes that are good for multiple people playing on one system, something which you normally only find on consoles.