Potential Huge Step Forward in Realistic Animation

[Jyn]

Holy crap wow. Imagine a FPS with graphics that good and using that head-tracking combined with VR technology.

[Maelgrim]

My thoughts exactly Jyn. Can you imagine something like doom 3 with headtracking? The immersiveness of RPG and FPS games would be increased a thousandfold!

That lifelike animation is pretty cool too! Once headtracking and advanced animation make sweet sweet love, I feel sorry for gamer's social lives!

[Rosuav]

Originally posted by Maelgrim
My thoughts exactly Jyn. Can you imagine something like doom 3 with headtracking? The immersiveness of RPG and FPS games would be increased a thousandfold!

That lifelike animation is pretty cool too! Once headtracking and advanced animation make sweet sweet love, I feel sorry for gamer's social lives!

Gamers have social lives??

[Jyn]

Originally posted by Maelgrim
My thoughts exactly Jyn. Can you imagine something like doom 3 with headtracking? The immersiveness of RPG and FPS games would be increased a thousandfold!

That lifelike animation is pretty cool too! Once headtracking and advanced animation make sweet sweet love, I feel sorry for gamer's social lives!

And just think about PvP! There you are, moving your head to cause your character to "peek" around a corner in a game, only to get headshot by a sniper! You'd actually have to duck and such to take cover behind objects in game.

[Talsek]

Realistic animation could be a fantastic addition to games (so long as it doesn't become the sole focus of course).

On the downside, politically correct attention whore activists will have a new degree of realistic violence/sex/etc to bitch about.

As for the head tracking video, I wanted a Wii all over again the first time I saw it. The same guy has a couple other cool videos too. Maybe it's bad that I want a Wii more for programmatic fiddling than for gaming. Ah well. Head tracking combined with realistic graphics would be really slick!

[kestra]

And just think about PvP! There you are, moving your head to cause your character to "peek" around a corner in a game, only to get headshot by a sniper! You'd actually have to duck and such to take cover behind objects in game.

If it isn't in place yet, I can see this kind of video interaction doing wonders for injury recovery, perhaps even psychological restoration in depressed patients in some manner. Combine the Wii Fit technology with this kind of head tracking technology could be a real benefit to the health industry.

[Pae]

Originally posted by kestra
If it isn't in place yet, I can see this kind of video interaction doing wonders for injury recovery, perhaps even psychological restoration in depressed patients in some manner. Combine the Wii Fit technology with this kind of head tracking technology could be a real benefit to the health industry.

There are arcade games (two that I know of) that use this idea. One is a police shooting game. Tyisrisum and I used to play that when we went to the movies. There is another that is a boxing game that I played I think in the detroit airport. Each game required you to duck/dodge/lean to change your view. I find them hugely amusing.