Nudges And Vibrations Enhancing Games

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a New York Times article (registration required) discussing physical feedback advances as they relate to games. According to the piece, "..the physically immersive technology known as haptics is beginning to deliver on the science-fiction dream of interactive alternative realities. Innovations with roots in automotive and medical engineering are making gamers feel a part of their games as never before." As well as more conventional force feedback and vibration devices, companies such as Canesta are working on an "..electronic device to create a three-dimensional image of its surroundings and respond to changes in real time" - could this create a whole new genre of gaming?

virtual pinball

[Tumbleweed]

..with virtual tilt! Schweeeet.

Get ready, PinBot, here comes the Haptic touch!

obligatory link

[Anonymous Coward]

must... be... posted...

there! [gamegirladvance.com]

Re:obligatory link

[mhesseltine]

I was really (and foolishly) hoping that no one would post this. Oh well.

Re:obligatory link

[Z0mb1eman]

With only 5 posts, I had a feeling that link might show up... as the 2nd post though - wow :) Good job!

I guess that depends...

[NickFusion]

Is Porn a genre?

Re:I guess that depends...

[Not_Wiggins]

This could bring whole new meaning to "game rewards." ;)

Voice Over: You've just saved the princess, Mario!

Princess: You're my hero!!!

Oh, baby!

That reminds me

[Hellraisr]

Up for a game of Existenz anyone?

Re:That reminds me

[GFunk83]

Can I be the waiter? Oh wait... ~gets shot~ oops. Bad decision

4 out of 6

[Leffe]

Four out of six threads so far are about sex games :)

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, the only thing I know is that I was going to post another one.
I guess this one will do instead, right?

Boring....

[mrpuffypants]

I ain't going to pay this any attention until the sex industry gets into it. Literally they have pioneered almost every semi-advanced technology on the interweb this is just going to be the next thing they do....hopefully....

It could at least make HotOrNot more interesting.....

Ten bucks says

[leviramsey]

...that like the videotape, the web, and the DVD, the porn industry will be among the first to put this to commercial use and the first to see significant profits.

Hell, I suspect that the Bible was the second thing Gutenberg printed, the first after he printed porn!

Windows

[nocomment]

"..electronic device to create a three-dimensional image of its surroundings and respond to changes in real time"

I'd put on a windows partition for that!!

Old News

[kabir]

Game Girl Advance [www.gamegirladvance] was reporting on this [gamegirladvance.com] (more or less) a while ago. Well, ok, not this exactly, but it's vibration in games at least ;)

"Flick of a Finger"

[zedsville]

"One new peripheral, Essential Reality's wireless P5 glove, allows its wearer to move and act within a gaming world through an optical tracking system. For example, a player wearing the glove in the first-person shooter game Unreal Tournament 2003 can depress a trigger with the flick of a finger. "

Correct me if I'm wrong here...but any user of a regular mouse--or a real life BFG--can also "depress a trigger with the flick of a finger".

Seriously though, I saw this glove at E3, and it looked interesting.

Re:"Flick of a Finger"

[Dsal]

If it controls at all like the PowerGlove for NES... *shudder* My friend back in the day actually wasted money on one. Or should I say, his grandma at Xmas. We couldn't get any game to control reliably with it. Eventually, we always had to go back to using the little controller on the arm part of it, and then it was back to the regular controllers since what was the point? It was a good prop for halloween costumes though.