God, I loved Dactyl Nightmare! Except for the one on the pier in San Fran (I think it was) where I totally bonked my head on a support ibeam while playing.
I still have the sourcecode laying around on a dat tape somewhere. I also loved the doom mod that let you play in the pods.Did you ever play that? And did you ever get to play it in a 5 wall cave instead of the eyepieces? On Jan 6, 2008 12:07 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:35 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Another reason why the wii could take over the universe > > > > I want some dope VR. That's why I support the prosthetics- eye's and > > stuff-- I say it's out of the kindness of my heart or whatever, but > > really it's cuz I know it's gonna make us some sick ass games-- Hi res > > VR stuff and big robots, and prob'ly exoskeletons, too. Guess the > > military does some good for that stuff too... > > Actual VR really hasn't come very far. I worked with the original > "CyberPods" long ago in Boston - four short games ("Dactyl Nightmare" and > "Hero" are the only two I could remember). Here's a picture of my lovely > bride (then lovely girlfriend) playing it. The pic (damn I'm old) is from > 1995: > > http://www.depressedpress.com/External/Cyber/Cyber95.jpg > > The unit featured a very large headpiece (these have definitely gotten > smaller) and ran on an Amiga 3000. View was controlled via head-tracking > and movement with a thumbstick. Graphics have gotten better but the basic > technology is still pretty much the same: head tracking, some gross, totally > abstracted movement scheme and uncomfortable gear. > > And in the end even this really primitive stuff just hasn't been really > popularized yet. > > I'm looking forward to what the PS3 does with the Eye (head tracking is well > within its capabilities). But I'm not holding my breath... VR is a classic > example of something where it's really pretty easy to get to a certain level > and then really (REALLY) hard to get further. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
