people say i'm obsessed for posting so much of <a href="http://theblindfoldedpianist.com/" target="_new">the blindfolded pianist's</a> work. fine, i'm obsessed. but, finally i know that i'm not not <a href="http://www.tallarico.com/mboard/index.php?showtopic=3702&st=0" target="_new">alone</a>.

mr. piano (aka, martin), shares the news <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/pianist1986/12063.html" target="_new">here</a>. <i>(congrats!)</i>

moving on ..

i wasn't going to post this since a) it's a monday and feel lazy, b) it's huge and i'll regret it two hours from now, but i decided to anyway since c) it's just plain awesome. <i>i am still really confused to how they map the terrain in "realtime".</i>
<a class="wmv" href="http://gprime.net/video.php/totalimmersion">total immersion</a> [ 11108KB ] warning: BIG

<i>real update soon..</i>

First!!!

Hee-hee. I've always wanted to do that. ^_^

Anyway, that is so awesome! My jaw dropped when I realized it was all just images! Wow!

WOW just WOW that was awesome

post 2 :P

Yay Post Three... :)

That is amazing... ... greatness in a can...

Oooooooooohhhh.....

Just thought of this: imagine the applications for video games. *drool*

God i would love to get my hands on the soft ware for that... Naturally me as a game programmer i had many many ideas for that man god im ganna start saving up for that!!!!

That software has immense potential! I do not believe that it could work without the room being pre-mapped, as John said. Perhaps multiple cameras might make it work? Bah! It would be almost impossible to monitor the entire room without cameras in every nook and cranny. I bet the mapped area was limited to sections monitored by several cameras. Still very cool! Can't wait till they can use this for gaming. I have sooo many great ideas it's uncanny.

woohoo i got #8!!!

erm... anyways. seems awesome. lots of potential for movies and games. (and everything in between)

Does anyone else find it strange that if this environment was mapped completely by cameras in real-time, why didn't the guy attempt to prove this by altering the environmet by moving things on the desk or putting things onto the desk? If the software really did map the environmet in real-time, it would have no problem adapting to a new environment. I would be truly amazed to see the hummer drive into (and not through) a real item just added to the desktop moments ago. Note that physical interactivity; although the hand tracker was cool; was not really the main focal point of the presentation, as it should have been.

As much as I hate to be a skeptic, as this technology is really amazing, I just think it is very curious...

Anybody else think so?


EDIT: Kewmat, do you really think this will have an impact on movies? I think live TV, perhaps, but certainly not movies. Movies already have better add-in effects that are added after the filming of the movie, and they work even better and smoother than real-time effects, as producers can fine-tune them to flush well with the movie and create the most desirable effect... Although, I suppose it would be cool if the actors could see an incomplete render of what the movie will look like once the effects are added in, while they are filming.

Although the basic intent of the new software was to allow people to interact with CGI right now, in real-time, simply because it's sweet, and has incredible potential in video gaming; Movies...not so much.

Wow... COOL! This technology is amazing! The helecopter looked so real! I'm in awe...

dude, if you stuck a mini camera or two on a pair of those tv glasses they have out now, if that thing is really as good as they say it is, it would make the sweatest games. heck, make the tv glasses goggles, and wireless, and you could turn an abandoned wearhouse into the best first-person shooting arena ever. although you might degrade the human mind of life value a bit more by letting teenagers actually kill a very human looking bot with a simulated gun and encouraging them to do it again and again to win in an extremely real environment. but that would probably be kept to more milataristic training for the army at first.

Words cannot describe the awsomeness of that technology. Do you know what this means? It means that in a few years, realy cool things will be happening. then more stuff will happen. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I NEED THIS TECHNOLOGY IN COOL VIDEO GAMES NOW!!! Total awsomeness. yea...thats it

Holy $!*{ !!!!

What the hell is that !!!!!??????

could i t be possible to direct download from gprime or get an url where i can have it?

i really want to show this to some friends that don't have internet !!!

Oh my god ! We really cannot stop technology !

As usual gprime rocks ^^

dude, if you stuck a mini camera or two on a pair of those tv glasses they have out now, if that thing is really as good as they say it is, it would make the sweatest games. heck, make the tv glasses goggles, and wireless, and you could turn an abandoned wearhouse into the best first-person shooting arena ever.

Holy crap, that is the best idea ever! Imagine playing halo in your own house, or anywhere around your city! Man, that would be insane! I could also see a nice first-person melee-style game where enemies will use projectiles and you will have to dodge them and run up to them and slash them in half with a lightsaber or a katana or your fist! whoa! Can't wait for that!

EDIT: Oh, and multiplayer...wow. Oh, and for those who love videogames but suck at DDR, there's an even better way to stretch your limbs while playing some of your favorite titles.

Holy crap, that is the best idea ever! Imagine playing halo in your own house, or anywhere around your city! Man, that would be insane! I could also see a nice first-person melee-style game where enemies will use projectiles and you will have to dodge them and run up to them and slash them in half with a lightsaber or a katana or your fist! whoa! Can't wait for that!

EDIT: Oh, and multiplayer...wow. Oh, and for those who love videogames but suck at DDR, there's an even better way to stretch your limbs while playing some of your favorite titles.
Yeah, but I guess there would have to be ALOT of cameras, and some people who havent caught up with this centurary (my memory SO bad I can't remember if it is the 20th or 21st) and they won't have a computer. Then again, in a collage/university campus...

Holy crap, that is the best idea ever! Imagine playing halo in your own house, or anywhere around your city! Man, that would be insane! I could also see a nice first-person melee-style game where enemies will use projectiles and you will have to dodge them and run up to them and slash them in half with a lightsaber or a katana or your fist! whoa! Can't wait for that!

I can definately imagine playing halo in my own house. :)

This concept has already been applied to video games. There were some commercials / mentions in the news about it. Look up Eye Toy.. it's not that impressive.

I dont see how this tech will lead to playing halo anywhere in the city.. unless of course we're running around with monitors and cameras are set up all over the city, and this city somehow is completely dedicated to playing some virtual shooter =/

Could probably be useful in laser tag places etc, once they develop glasses with wireless screens on 'em? :D

I can definately imagine playing halo in my own house. :)

This concept has already been applied to video games. There were some commercials / mentions in the news about it. Look up Eye Toy.. it's not that impressive.

I dont see how this tech will lead to playing halo anywhere in the city.. unless of course we're running around with monitors and cameras are set up all over the city, and this city somehow is completely dedicated to playing some virtual shooter =/

Could probably be useful in laser tag places etc, once they develop glasses with wireless screens on 'em? :D
Or, a event in a stadium (football stadium, hockey arena.ect)

I can definately imagine playing halo in my own house. :)

This concept has already been applied to video games. There were some commercials / mentions in the news about it. Look up Eye Toy.. it's not that impressive.

I dont see how this tech will lead to playing halo anywhere in the city.. unless of course we're running around with monitors and cameras are set up all over the city, and this city somehow is completely dedicated to playing some virtual shooter =/

Could probably be useful in laser tag places etc, once they develop glasses with wireless screens on 'em? :D
They alredy developed the wireless screns, I saw it in a lazer tag commercial :D