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A first person shooter simulator

Jodell88

Jodell88

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Racing simulators are ten a penny, but the closest an FPS player will get to an immersive experience is buying some branded peripherals. Armed with a pre-release level of Battlefield 3, The Gadget Show enlisted a team of design experts to transform a Birmingham studio into an FPS simulator costing £500,000 ($650,000). A four by nine meter video dome surrounds the player as they stand on an omni-directional treadmill that lets you walk wherever you want to go. Ten infra-red motion tracking cameras and a sensor on your gun enables the picture to follow where you point it and a Kinect hack controls your jumping and crouching. The fun doesn't stop there -- 12 paintball markers mean that every time you get shot in the game, you'll feel it. The show airs in the UK on October 24th at 8:00pm, Channel 5. We've got a behind the scenes gallery below (supplied by those lovely people from the show) as well as PR and a trailer after the break.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/20/the-gadget-show-builds-an-fps-simulator-that-shoots-back-video/

Looks awesome! 😎

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The episode is out. :awe:

Remember The Gadget Show's FPS simulator that we showed you last week? Armed with naught but a pre-release level of Battlefield 3 and £500,000 ($650,000), it transformed a Birmingham studio into the sort of game room only multi-billionaires can dream of (as long as the dreams involved getting shot back, the sim comes packing paintball markers). The episode, which shows how this slice of gaming greatness came to be, has just finished airing here in the UK, where streaming and catch-up services aren't available to those outside the country. Fortunately for you lot, our friends at the show have uploaded the feature for you to watch in all it's glory after the break.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/24/how-the-gadget-show-built-its-fps-simulator-video/
 
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wow that was REALLY fucking cool. i would LOVE to try that out. wonder how that treadmill feels.

the one thing i noticed about it that would feel weird was sometimes it looked like he stopped walking on the treadmill and it rolled him back to the center.
 
Video is choppy for some reason making it unwatchable. Got through 9 minutes and it looks amazing though.
 
On a sort of unrelated note, what happened to that Corsair peripheral from a few years back that went around your head and allowed you to control games with your thoughts?
 
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