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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: Info req: VR floaty apparatus thingy
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:54:44 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <9212290853.AA10338@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Dec 29, you wrote:
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- > From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
- > Subject: Re: TECH: Info req: VR floaty apparatus thingy
- > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:19:03 -0800
- >
- > I hit Disneyland week before last. Drizzle, no lines.
- >
- > The arcade there has lots of stuff I've never seen before. Among
- > other things, a version of the SEGA G-Loc (I think that was the name)
- > in a spherical harness. $4 a shot. G-Loc is one of those
- > fighter-pilot pov games. It had two circular mounts with a base set
- > that looked like it also moved the sucker. There is no horizontal
- > ring.
- >
- > A kid played, spun around like crazy and didn't puke. The harness
- > spins pretty quickly, I was generally impressed by the engineering.
-
- The system is the SEGA R360. I played it in London (Trocadero Centre)
- and I think the game running on it was After Burners, always a fighter
- pilot pov game.
-
- Before climbing in, you are asked to take off anything could fall
- during the game (coins, keys..) then you are locked in the seat with
- rigid safety belts, quite tight.
-
- On the right of the cockpit there's a BIG RED BUTTON to stop the
- machine at any time during the game. Before the games itself begins,
- you are given a little shake and roll with a 360 degree rotation in
- all of the two directions the system allows.
-
- When the game begins you have to lift off... and you really feel like.
- You pull the joystick and you find yourself upside down...
-
- It is very funny to use, and YES! it is FAST. I was more concerned
- about putting me with the head up than with the game itself. Anyway I
- highly recommend a play.
-
- I asked the attendant about the price and he sayed something like
- $300K... The funny thing was that right after that game I went to
- play with Virtuality VTOL (again a jet game): when I pulled the cloche
- and NOTHING moved I was going to take off the HMD and go away!!
-
- This made me start thinking about the IDEAL videogame... networked,
- with voice communications between teams (like the BattleTech Centre),
- moving or at least rolling all around (like this Sega R360), with an
- immersive HMD (something better than Virtuality, please). This would
- obviously give some safety problems...
-
- Diego
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