Playing a First-Person Shooter Using Real Guns 225
Blake writes "A group called Waterloo Labs rigged up a few accelerometers to a large wall and projected a first-person shooter onto it. Using some math, they can triangulate the position of impacts on the wall, so naturally they found someone with a gun and bought a large case of ammunition. Even cooler, this group usually posts a 'how we did it' video a few weeks after a project's debut, including source code."
Been done... (Score:1, Informative)
This type of thing has been done at shooting ranges around the world. Usually it involves laser modules added to a weapon, but some of them allow use of actual munitions without modifications.
Most are hunting or self-defense simulations.
Re:Air Force people learn to shoot guns? (Score:5, Informative)
bullshit.
all soldiers (and yes, airforce pilots are also soldiers) undergo the same basic training so if the pilot cannot fly he still can shoot at the enemy or defend himself after ejecting.
this is not a fucking team fortress, real humans are universal.
Re:Sadly... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Air Force people learn to shoot guns? (Score:3, Informative)
Are you kidding me? Chairforce... erm Air Force pilots do not under go the same kind of small arms training that a Marine does. Every branch of service has their own basic training courses. When I went through basic we spent most of one whole day learning about the M16A2 and got to shoot about 100 rounds at the range. The targets were all at simulated range. Meaning that it's a big sheet of paper with targets of varying size and shape.
I knew a girl who enlisted in the army to drive trucks and even she had an entire month of weapons training, some of which was with a .50 cal machine gun. The only people I am aware of in the Air Force that do anything more than qualify with small arms are Security Forces, Para Rescue and Combat Controllers,
All that said I'm not sure that adjusting for shots past 100 yards is something that anyone but snipers need to worry about in todays typical fighting environment.
Re:Doesn't sound the same (Score:5, Informative)
The guy in camo is what competition shooters call a mall ninja. He can't shoot, was never in the military, but wants to be a bad ass. That's why he had a big elaborate gun, he bought his way in. You see them at competitions wearing shirts that say "Blackwater" and hats that say "C.I.A".
Bunch of damn tools.
Re:Air Force people learn to shoot guns? (Score:3, Informative)
Before Heinlein was a writer, he was an officer in the Navy, having been through the Naval Academy. Which suggests he probably could take and give orders, co-operate, act alone, conn a ship, fight efficiently, and plan an invasion.
I'd guess that he could also change a diaper, pitch manure, butcher a hog, build a wall, set a bone, balance accounts, and comfort the dying, all of those being skills someone of his background would have picked up one way or another.
The only building I know of he "designed" was the one in "...And He Built A Crooked House"; that one probably doesn't count.
The only one of those I'm sure he failed to do is die gallantly.
Re:Doesn't sound the same (Score:1, Informative)
I didn't see a lot of police officers, but I'd expect they would be similarly proficient.
I have shot along side police officers at a range before in my old hometown. They were all terrible shots.
Re:Doesn't sound the same (Score:3, Informative)