(remember this? imagine this 9001 times greater)

but the problem from these motion control systems or accessories is that they suck at motion gestures or recognizing certain movements or hand poses, not to mention the games completely suck. so what if there was good hardcore game, and in order to simulate its environments and atmosphere did they improve  the gestures of the kinect? well that happen last year, when the critically acclaimed game battlefield 3 came out on october 25th, 2011. a group of people actually took a kinect, added paintballs and code to shoot them at the player when he gets hit in game, a dome, a track in a circle to simulate walking, an app on a iphone to simulate a gun, and a movable screen to simulate turning and direction. this in result made the latest modern warfare shooter into a fully functoning gunfight simulator.

(imagine playing halo or skyrim in this.)

yet there are still flaws. sure it is the most advanced simulator someone had ever made, but nobody is going to have the resources or the space to have something like this in their home. so what i am proposing is to create a better simulator, one that someone can fit in a persons house.  imagine if a gaming system has a mat that you can walk on, but still stay in the same place. and if you trip or fall, the character your playing ass trips and falls. imagine having a projector going around your room and moving the screen to our point of view, all because the  new and improved kinect see this. what if, no matter what game you play, you can feel complete immersion, a sword strike is an actual sword strike, a push is a push not a double punch, and the ball go about the same speed you seem to be throwing, not in a set motion. this what we are proposing, that instead of crappy motion control games, we have a simulator, like the one the group had done, in our own living room.

link to the ultimate bf3 simulator : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY

last week i posted a proposal for virtual reality simulator where it could be used as an affordable in home console for the mainstream community. like i had said last week, a group of people actually took a kinect, added paintballs and code to shoot them at the player when he gets hit in game, a dome, a treadmill in a circle to simulate movement, an app on a iphone to simulate a gun, and a movable screen to simulate turning and direction. this in result made the latest modern warfare shooter into a fully functoning gunfight simulator.

yet it costed $650,000 in order to put it together, not to mention that there is literally no space for a system like that in a home. my re factors have been mostly question like how are you going to walk, what are the controllers, how to create create a dome effect, and how is the player is going to interact with the game.

well I went back to the drawing board and found the answers to all those questions.

for the dome effect, i have been sugessted to use 3d glasses instead of projectors, and for that i decided to use the new headset called oculus rift. it is a headset that gives the user a

wide angle and field of view in order to immerse the player in a sense of artificial reality. it is currently in development but is backed up by many gaming companies and has games like doom3 bfg edition and hawken that is already compaitble for it.

for movement, i saw a video called cybercarpet, a small omnidirectional treadmill. this is part of a project called the cyberwalk project. this carpet can be used to simulate movement and would not take up space in order to do so. if it can come in a slightly larger size, like a 3-4 feet radius, then we would have our movement

for controllers, I think similar controls like the PlayStation move’s controls in order to simulate shooting in fps, or sword swinging in a rpg. I also want to add a vest that rumbles in specific places a player gets hit in the game, in order to add more of the sense of being immersed in the game’s world.

for motion sensors, 4 infrared cameras surrounding the player, with the program leap motion to capture and record a person’s movement and actions. with this they would be able to crouch, jump, run, and etc. and still be able to be covered from all 4 angles.

the links to the main tools and software below

leap motion

oculus virtual reality simulator 

bf3 simulator