New super wierd Virtual Reality System for Army

[Jynks]

http://www.virtusphere.net/

Check it out!!

[spudthedestroyer]

aha, that's gotta be a piss take.... this is what they should use:
http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=11114

I must have completely spaced on this but i found it by going through some nintendo "no it can't be called Wii" denial pages that are linked to in a number of articles. I think there's not much chance of this and that's some fanboys dreaming of some mystical shit like they always do, but this D'Fusion stuff looks rahter impressive. Basically at E3 2004 a french company demonstrated a technology called D'Fusion and its completely blown me away... its amazing. Basically it adds 3d models over a real world environment via a digicamera and some pc software.

Here's the video of it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... mo&pl=true

Look at the way the car bounces all over the place, that's pretty neat. I can imagine of loads of fun games that could be made by blending into the environment your working with (ie, platformer in your living room)

And the official sites:
http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2004/54847.html
http://www.t-immersion.com/home.asp

Video Clips
http://www.t-immersion.com/video_galler ... asp?idf=a0

I obviously spaced on this 2 years ago, anyone else heard anything about this stuff?

Shit hot

[mxyzptlk]

at least in the 60's & 70's they kept experiments like this a wee bit cheaper.back then they simply called it acid

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[TeKHeD]

believe it or not this system was demo'd on tomorrows world around the time the first doom games appeared, it sucked then and i cant see it performing much better now , still the same pants idea

[Jynks]

Yar that stuff would be cool for limited things , but the origianl like isn't a joke and is for somthing diffrent ArtificialReality, not argmented... the idea of the sphere is that you have full body free roaming device that allows you to walk, run and jump in a virtual world. Coupled with hydrolics for tactile feedback of slopes, shaking etc it could be very cool.

Also remeber those links of the "see though" materials... that stuff was invented for thiskind of product.