How To Spark A Gaming Revolution! -Discussion-

[Kschreck]

This is a discussion on what needs to be done to reinvent gaming.


How to spark a gaming revolution!


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I believe this could single handily save gaming. Imagine playing Resident Evil 5 with near realistic quality graphics and in the helmet all you see is the game. If you turn to your left or look up the gyroscopes in the helmet will make your view screen respond accordingly. Imagine watching a movie on this. It's the second best thing after the Holodeck. Just think of the possibilities that can be achieved with the technology we have today. Say your playing a football game online with a bunch of people or NPC's for that matter and you call out to your team via the microphone inside the helmet below the center screen. You hear the crowds cheer all around you via the directional audio speakers. You tell your team mates to toss you the ball...

It's all possible and this would single handily save gaming if done right. Everything above is possible to create and with the same amount of money spent on the current generation game systems. Imagine a racing game or a mech game that you can control. The helmet would be light since most of the heavy hardware is in the system itself and you could hook the helmet up to the system or just use the wireless WiFi support. Have a brother? Buy a second helmet and play your favorite deathmatch game with him. He could be in a different room and you guys could still be playing wirelessly. If you think about this it's friggin insane but I believe all this is possible to achieve. What do you guys think of this idea and what ideas can you come up with?

 

[Gargantou]

How about a system which somehow allows you to "code" or "design" dreams, it would not require any real hardware except the human brain and perhaps som electrodes connected to your head.
I'm not a scientist and can't say this is possible or such but I think it should be.
If you can make someone "sleep" and then specifically control their dreams you can give them the closest non-real-life experience ever imo.

 

[Sprafa]

It would be both expensive and impractical

 

[The Dark Elf]

It would be both expensive and impractical

yeah and people would complain it wasn't multiplayer.

 

[OCybrManO]

A huge ****ing helmet? No thanks... as if gamers aren't seen as big enough nerds already. Call me when it's about the weight of a pair of glasses.

EDIT: Didn't someone here post this link before?

 

[Danimal]

- A game that has great graphics but dosen't need a $10,000 dollar computer to run it.
- A reveloution would be to get those religious groups to stop whining about the violence in games... :|

 

[StardogChampion]

Is Kschreck trying to tell is that virtual reality helmets are a new thing?

I played on a virtual reality arcade machine at least 8 years ago where you move your head and your aim moves with it.

 

[15357]

joining the PRA is better...

heh....

/me rus away

 

[The Dark Elf]

Is Kschreck trying to tell is that virtual reality helmets are a new thing?

I played on a virtual reality arcade machine at least 8 years ago where you move your head and your aim moves with it.

heh those things were cool. I think some people bought them up cheap when the interest in them died, stuck in better hardware and now have them running in much better quality.

I remember those battlemech games, loads of cockpits lined up in rows and you'd all go off and fight it out over LAN in these mechwarrior type games. they came just after the VR stuff and vanished almost as quickly, shame too cause they were great.

 

[StardogChampion]

heh those things were cool. I think some people bought them up cheap when the interest in them died, stuck in better hardware and now have them running in much better quality.

I remember those battlemech games, loads of cockpits lined up in rows and you'd all go off and fight it out over LAN in these mechwarrior type games. they came just after the VR stuff and vanished almost as quickly, shame too cause they were great.

I think those mech arcades were the ones I was using. I just remember this crosshair that moved with your head, and some low-poly plain brown terrain. Or maybe it was a tank, not a mech, maybe. It had little joysticks for turning and moving forward/back.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

- A game that has great graphics but dosen't need a $10,000 dollar computer to run it.
- A reveloution would be to get those religious groups to stop whining about the violence in games... :|

Since when do Computers cost $10,000

Unless your thinking about in the Future

Sound Card
Graphics Card
Physics Card
AI Card
TV Card
Modem Card

 

[SLH]

Helments are ok, but CAVEs are better.

 

[KU_]

3D? A helmet? Anyone remember Virtual Boy? I doubt Nintendo will ever go back to 3D after that.

 

[Glo-Boy]

If you have an idea, don't tell everyone about it. Someone will run off and take the money. Fortunately in this situation, it's been done.

 

[KagePrototype]

Kage's guide to revolutionizing gaming as we know it:

1. Think up revolutionary idea that puts all peers to shame
2. Implement it

100% guarantee, or your money back.

Don't know if this helmet will revolutionize gaming to any extreme extent...and I bet everyone would look really stupid in it.

But yeah, I know, "think outside the box" and all that jazz.

 

[guchi]

revoloution for motion sickness =/

 

[mortiz]

If I could answer this question I would be a millionaire by now and hailed by all as the man who saved the industry.

You can't just set out and say "I'm going to revolutionize the industry today!", if it happens it'll happen through a moment of sheer enlightenment that comes around once in a blue moon.