> -----Original Message----- > From: Tyler Silcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Nintendo Revolution leak (or plant)... > > It looks like Nintendo's about to take the game to another level. > Check this video out: > > http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000180043335/ > > All previous reports about the next Nintendo console point to this > type of thing being a possibility. And this video has too many well > thought out and well executed ideas to be fake.
Well - I'm not so sure it's real (nothing in it is beyond the capabilities of a college student looking to enhance a demo reel) - but it definitely fits with the rumors we've been hearing. I think it may be subtly misleading tho': from the video it's easy to assume that the headset contains displays (as in "real" VR) but I really doubt that's the case. Instead I would guess that they're shutter glasses used in front of a regular TV to produce a 3D effect. (In effect such glasses flicker in time with the video signal allowing a separate video signal to be directed to each eye. This also means that people who are blind in one eye like my wife can't use the system very well. It also means that, like the Virtual Boy, a lot of people could end up with headaches.) (This kind of stuff isn't new - the game "Magic Carpet" supported several kinds of 3D including shutter glasses, stereogram and split screen/shadow box. The stereogram version was so coolly weird and didn't require any extra gear... but it was damn hard to maintain things and you could expect some nasty headaches afterward!) They also didn't show an actual controller (instead inferring that all control is done via motion and proximity sensors). But since they've said (and the video intimated) that the system would be backwards compatible with the Cube an actual controller has to be included. The thing that really made me think it was a fake was the whole idea of a recordable capability - it almost seemed like they were inferring that the machine had two separate drives - one DVD player, one recorder of some kind. This seems more unbelievable to me than anything else. But still - so very, very cool! Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157673 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
