Wii Virtual Reality?? Possible?

vgcollector666 · Post by **vgcollector666** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:54 pm

I came up with a great brainstorm earlier this evening. What if you could have a virutal reality head set with the wii built into a belt or something that you would wear and have it run on batteries?

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:57 pm

Yep, put the wii in the back pack get a motions sensor to read your leg motions, to wii motes for your arms, and and get a battery to run it on a battery.

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:21 pm

problems with Virtual reality is space

u might have a headset and in a virtual world but how are you gonna make sure u don't bump into something and hurt yourself

its not exactly practial yet even tho id love to.

I did help someone build a virtual reality system

I told him how i think the easiest way would be to setup a home system.

Basiclly it was kinda like how the VR units are used now in that small unit u stand in so u dont move around to much and hurt yourself.

It was adapted to normal pc games one was for some car combat game dont remember what it was but it had headmovement.

Your body would always be sitting as ur driving but the game had you able to turn left and right for seeing enemies.

i told him use a old MS mouse and connect a fixed wire onto the helmet so when you turned the wire twisted left with u and the mouse connected to this twisted aswell so if u looked left the mouse would simulate it.

the technology can be done but simpler ways need to be thought of but the problem is still space and the fact that having lcd's so close to your eyes isn't a good idea more than a short period of time

Post by **Triton** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:25 pm

mebe not really VR but AR (augmented reality) thats where they use a HMD with cameras and overlay digital stuff onto the real world, kinda neat stuff

sameguy · Post by **sameguy** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:40 am

Hey I know this has nothing to do with the topic at hand. But what about the wii playing RTS games, now that we got mouse like qualities with the controller wouldent it be possible to specalize in an area of games that in which other consoles have failed ?

And I apologise for getting off topic

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:45 pm

Triton wrote:mebe not really VR but AR (augmented reality) thats where they use a HMD with cameras and overlay digital stuff onto the real world, kinda neat stuff

Like the Real life pacman

love that one

Gump-in-space · Post by **Gump-in-space** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:52 pm

Virtual reality is pointless. "Oooohhhh!!! I get to see the same dang image that I see on a tv, but now it's 3 inches from my eyes, gives me a head ache, hurts my face, and weighs ten pounds! Goody!" Unless someone ever figures out that the only virtual reality that's convincing is the two camera method, I'm not letting anybody, homebrew or first party, shove a screen in my face for $100.

Post by **Triton** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:55 pm

you have a lot of preconcieved notions about VR, number one the helmet doesnt have to weight ten pounds, maybe a pound at most (think sony glastron or similar HMD) most VR setups even back in the day were stereoscopic (simulated 3d, works fairly good) but pretty premitive, it would be easy (and very expensive) to make a GOOD VR setup, wide angle of view, good balanced stereo-vision, good headtracking, ideally with a tactile feedback glove or somehting. at least xga resolution. also 100$ is just LOL hilarious. even crap old LOW res HMDs cost more than 100$ in a lot of cases, im talkin less than 30 degree FOV at like 320x230 basic head tracking and crap

Reploid Ayla · Post by **Reploid Ayla** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:24 pm

I was going to use an ipod video eye display headset and have the video wirelessly sent to it, but I realized that project would be too easy for me...

Mikeyman64 · Post by **Mikeyman64** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:02 pm

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gamefunatic · Post by **gamefunatic** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:41 am

this is a very interesting idea...and i have a solution to the space problem. you could get a tredmile like floor mat, so when you walk it moves with you.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:17 am

gamefunatic wrote:this is a very interesting idea...and i have a solution to the space problem. you could get a tredmile like floor mat, so when you walk it moves with you.

Then what do you do when you have to turn? Walk off the treadmill and bash your head into a wall? Maybe you could make an 8-way treadmill or something.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:38 am

My friend was telling me about something he used at the wired next fest. It was something similar to a hamster wheel. You got in, and when you walked around it rotated, and you'de stay in place.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:59 am

madc0w wrote:My friend was telling me about something he used at the wired next fest. It was something similar to a hamster wheel. You got in, and when you walked around it rotated, and you'de stay in place.

Hamster wheel or hamster ball? The wheel would still have the problems of the treadmill. A hamster ball sorta deal is a really good idea, just not something most people would like in their houses.

gamefunatic · Post by **gamefunatic** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:11 am

i was thinking of the 8 way not the straight one. and the hamster ball one sounds good too...hmmm...