Mon 20 Apr 2009
Best Thing I Saw Today #46: “Don’t Fall!”
ByMost gamers will be skeptical of any claims that this kind of technology might change interactive entertainment in any meaningful way. After all, virtual reality has always been a term synonymous with grand but ultimately vacuous promise.
But even if it is yet another a tech demo gimmick, the evidence that this test subject’s brain has been comprehensively fooled into believing it’s entered another world is fun to watch.
Shame it’s a world from a crusty, five-year-old PC game but still, the potential for loading in Fallout 3′s Wasteland or GoW’s planet Sera is clear.
Send in a Brumak and let’s see how the dude’s knees wobble then…
Also: If I’d have been the one with controller I’d have totally messed with the guy a whole lot more.
“You wanna fly?”.
“For sure!”.
“Tough shit! You,my friend, are going to POGO.” *BOING* *BOING* “Kapow onto the railing!”, “Schwizzim into the well”, “And phwup down to THE VERY CENTRE OF THE EARTH.”

April 20th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
That is amazing. I am amazed. This should be happening ALL THE TIME.
Actually, I had an idea for a harness that would suspend you so you could run around in the center. I’ve just been waiting for the right mad technology to come along and, you know, now I can spring into action. After tea.