GridStream Productions

This looks AWEsome, and I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.

What I wouldn't give for just 5 minutes in this machine.

http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/caveQuake/

Hint: Scroll down a bit and check out the movies section.

The movies didn't play for me.
I'm on a gheto system. ^_^

I couldn't play that even if I wanted to.
I'd get ownz just by looking at the pictures.

Try right-click, save as on the movie links. Don't try to stream them.

I'd do the mpg's on a lower-end system.

aah VR, whatever happened to that great research into that, few years back I thought I'd be wearing semitransparent glasses insted of looking at a screen by now.
But noooo, no such thing. That cave might be ok tho, it looks great

Actually, by all rights (if you read the description, they hint on this), the cave is actually MORE immersive than goggles would be.

The cave comes WITH goggles, but their only aspect is to give you depth perception via high-speed shutters in each eye that sync up with the left-eye and right-eye frames in the cave itself (which obviously alternate back and forth at very high speeds)..

So when you're in the cave with the goggles on, you see EVERYthing in perfect depth perception. Goggles simply can't do that (yet).

About the goggle research, the big problem that put the pause/break on the advent of the consumer-level goggles is the fact that the screens involved in each eye of the goggles are based on technology that works about 4 out of 5 times at best.

That means that with the best possible production facility, 20% of the funds would go into the crapper via bad "throw-away" goggles. No company in the world would invest in that.

But the research IS continuing.

I wanna try this badly

Oh... My... God...
I can't wait till they try this out with Resident Evil... Or Silent Hill... Imagine the sheer increase in nervous break down and paranoia medication perscriptions!
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Imagine halo...
dddddrrrrroooooooooolllll.....

Oddysee wrote:Oh... My... God...
I can't wait till they try this out with Resident Evil... Or Silent Hill... Imagine the sheer increase in nervous break down and paranoia medication perscriptions!
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Hee! I'll be in the front line beggin for more.

that is far better than that little 3d projector we ve at our uni

hmm doing this with an MMORPG that would be nasty, but it'll prolly requier to much to do

or this in a "Smack em up"game like Tekken or Dead or Alive, uhhh or this in Aliens vs. Predator that would be so fucking sweet, i would play mariens just to get the thrill, and caus i would own ur ass's with me puls rifle

Looks pretty cool.
All we need now is a cockpit with nuematic/hydraulic actuators and we're ready for Falcon 4.0 SP3! Or a MechWarrior cockpit!
*looks for lotto winnings*

and something in the middle so that we can actually use our feet.


me still waits for my personal holodeck......

I'm reminded of that huge game in hackers

Own me?... with a pulse rifle?... dream on bro! I'd biter yer head off, and you know it... tho in a virtual world... I assume I'd get dizzy and throw up while wall running... so maybe you could...
AvP2 RULES! (Aliens Vs Predator 2, for the slow witted)

Man... I love Aliens... they're are my also one of my 3 idols in life
(I mentioned another one in another post... I'll do a contest one day for a mill to the person who can name all 3... Bro, Muki... you can't play... sorry )
Any one seen Alien? you know... number 1... I thought that movie was so sad... seriously... I cried like a baby when the Alien died... still can't bear to watch that mean woman burning it...
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Dude i have proven to own ya ass in AvP2 with a puls rifle and ill do it again

BTW im a better aim in RL then in the game, and a lot faster to

anywho if the ever works im gonna duel ya, no matter how much it cost ill duel ya just to prove that im right

You're on!... INC. Alien drone... and it's gonna eat yer arse!
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dude ill ripe ya head off in an instant

Bring it on bitch!

... ?!?

*/ me suddenly realizes he's arguing with a person... who's sitting in the room next to his...*

Uhm... there has to be a better way... AH !!!

*/me walks in and bitch slaps Red'*
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Bro.... this means WAR!!!!! ARRRRRRRR (A manly ARRRRRRR, and very manly it is)


*Jumps on Oddy and grabs his head, sitting around it* GWAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAA






BTW, notihng beats a puls rifle get it in to ya damn head