Flight to Future
This pic shows a visitor taking a swing at QMotions-Baseball video game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on May 20, 2005. So, are we moving towards an era of take-home Simulators?!? Going by the fact that clicking one's computer mouse is hardly the most authentic way to play a few innings of a baseball video game, this s/w lets the player swing a real bat. For $80, the QMotions-Baseball system replaces the game pad, letting you use a bat of your choosing. The set-up includes a special bat collar that wirelessly sends swing movement to a home plate receiver you plug into an XBox or PC. The device, available this month, works with big league baseball games including "EA Sports MVP Baseball" and "ESPN Baseball." As these devices becomes more and more popular and their demand rises, the prices will naturally fall - Economy of Scale theory. Then, it will be possible for everyone - including people like you and me - to play Baseball in our homes!! And why only Baseball, Cricket is a rage in India - there is already so much money being pumped into and being generated by the game - so probably someone would come out with a Cricket version for this. Imagine people playing cricket in their very homes, preferably with the AC on, in front of the screen. Lets take this a bit further - how about people wearing a lightweight helmet that would cover thier eyes and heads. This device would actually be a virtual-reality creator which will project a 3D image of a cricket field in their eyes. The field will be flooded with audience whose roars would be fed into the player's ears by the same device. The swing of your Bat will be captured by the device and this will route the ball along a particular route, depending upon other parameters also, including speed of the delivery, where did the ball touch the bat, timing of the shot etc. etc. Just imagine playing in these conditions!!!
posted by Abhishek Singh @ 11:39 PM
2 Comments:
the post is cool man. Nice work
Wow, this is cool... I can play with confidence knowing that I wud not be hit by the ball... You should have seen me playing cricket with cricket ball for the first time recently... I was in the middle and literally shivering... despite the heat !!!
All said and done, does it give the same experience as playing a real game ? I wud have to play one virtually to find out !!!
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