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Stick Your Head In It, It's First Person Pinball

Posted July 27, 2007 11:06 AM

From electro^plankton:

The Furminator is a pinball machine that puts the player in a first person perspective similar to games like Half Life and Halo. Like being inside a huge VR-helmet, the player's head is stuck into the capsule. His nose is situated right behind the flipper fingers, only centimeters away from the ball. Sealed off from reality and with his head arrested inside a force-feedback-helmet, the sound- and light effects, the mechanical noises of the pinball and the absorbing perspective create a highly immersive mechatronic environment, if not a bit dizzying. Seriously, this is what our parents were afraid of during the height of arcades in the 80's - a bunch of zombie like video game freaks.

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07/28/2007 12:03 PM

I prefer the virtual hang glider, made using a beam splitter, (nine years ago).

It's a shame we couldn't get the virtual space capsule farm off the ground. We had plans for a whole room full of the actuated safety pods, (used for jet-boat racing escape systems), as cock pits; on gimbals.

I can certainly see how this is sooo much better.

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07/28/2007 8:24 PM

Here is a bit more perspective. Weird.

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