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Name:	Jeremy Alessi
Date Posted:	Jun 03, 2006
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I know it doesn't look like much but this is my home simulation of the VR units that Leroy Baynum has. Those who've read my last few blogs know we've got Torque and now Aerial Antics working in VR with full head tracking. The next really exciting step of course is to take it to the next level and utilize the steroscopic functionality of the VR head unit. The above screen consists of two 80 X 60 camera viewports on a 640 X 480 display (YES, I should increase the resolution so I can get a shaper view of the game). Each view port represents a seperate camera render one from each eye on the character model. There's also a little routine that creates a focal point for both cameras which is extremely cool. Anyway, by pressing my head against the monitor I can test the stereoscopic view and it works great! It is like a full color version of the old Virtual Boy which I always thought was cool except the limited red color scheme.

For fun:

Set your monitor resolution to 640 X 480 and press your head against your monitor with one eye on each view port ;)

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Ben Garney (Jun 03, 2006 at 06:00 GMT)

At first I thought you were emulating the original mario kart... but now I see you're actually quite clever. :P

Jeremy Alessi (Jun 03, 2006 at 06:29 GMT)

LOL, well thanks Ben ;) I'll have to see about putting a build out for people to give it a try. It works like a charm ... if it wasn't making me go blind and cross-eyed I'd almost like to do a PC game that uses this ... even if just for one small part of the game.

Anton Bursch (Jun 03, 2006 at 10:46 GMT)

I just got sold on going to IGC this year. :) I HAVE to try this out. Even though October is the final month of the game I'm working on... I can't miss out on this. TOO BAD ASS!!!

Anton Bursch (Jun 03, 2006 at 10:50 GMT)

Jeremy,

Remember the flying game on the N64 when it first released? I had a video projector playing the game on a huge wall. It was crazy! So much fun. There was something so cool about he immersion playing a flying game when you have part of the view in your side vision. From that day on I wanted a VR flying game so bad! I want to play a skiing game in vr though. That would be fun too. And of course, an FPS multiplayer game. Damn. that would be crazy as hell. you gotta hook up an fps for IGC too. :P

Tim Hutcheson (Jun 03, 2006 at 11:43 GMT)

Does it matter which side of my head I press against the monitor? I can't seem to get this to work. ;o)

Tom Bampton (Jun 03, 2006 at 15:55 GMT)

I also can't get this to work. It seems to have a dependency on the number of eyes the user has.

Jeremy Alessi (Jun 03, 2006 at 16:51 GMT)

LOL

Ed Johnson (Jun 05, 2006 at 02:10 GMT)

Wow, great way to get a headache... lol

Mike Kuklinski (Jun 05, 2006 at 03:13 GMT)

I have a headache now. Make a box someone can wrap around their head that attaches to their monitor. Then they don't need a VR headset!
Edited on Jun 05, 2006 03:15 GMT

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