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Who needs a Wii when you can play Half-Life with real guns?
Waterloo Labs is a group of breathlessly enthusiastic engineering nerds in Austin. For their latest project, they rigged up a big screen with accelerometers that sense the position of any impact. They then projected Half-Life onto the screen and hired a shooting instructor to shoot guns at the image. The shooting instructor is so cool he not only wears sunglasses at night, but he wears sunglasses at night when he's shooting.
The best part of the video is when the lovable engineering nerds decide not to miss out on the fun and take shovels to the screen. They have no illusions about being cool and instead giggle like schoolgirls as they whack away with the shovels. Great job, Waterloo Labs! But next time, if you really want to endear yourselves to us videogaming nerds, bring crowbars instead of shovels.
By @fake at 5:18 PM ON 08/11/09
FAKE!!!!
By trigger at 5:31 PM ON 08/11/09
Umm, no. That's real. Everything they explained was true. Works similar (but not really) to a touch screen. By sourcing the vibration on the panel, they could tell the computer where the "mouse" was clicking. You only say it's fake because you don't understand how it works.
By Jamion at 6:05 PM ON 08/11/09
I imagine it is actually hard with real guns. In half-life you can use sub machine guns and reloading is really quick. With a real gun your going to using a pistol or rifle, no automatic or sub features; and reloading take a lot longer in real life. As well as I can see the dangers of people injuring themselves trying to do this.
But yes it is real, the science behind it is real. And I could see this being useful for building more realistic games (aka taking data), but not for playing them.
By monster at 6:19 PM ON 08/11/09
@trigger
I'd actually agree that it's fake, simply because that ain't no Half-Life, that's some crappy arcade half-life thing.
Sooo they got half of it right, they're playing with a real gun. Now all they need is real Half-Life... and I thought that'd be the easy part... silly me
By trigger at 9:50 PM ON 08/11/09
lol, yeah. You got me there. I was paying more attention to the tech than the game itself. *runs off to play TF2
By CujoSR at 4:44 AM ON 08/12/09
Why is everyone hung up on the game? It's a stupid flash version of Half-Life 2. Found Here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flashrolls.com%2Farcade-games%2FHalf-Life-2-Flash-Game.htm&ei=qICCSuvBM5L-sgPJrMSxAg&usg=AFQjCNGSzwlZKJWjPVapom3GyK940BSLmw&sig2=3EANL_4oCyXRk7dn7FoiFQ
All they did was show off the techosing something with a clickable interface.
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