Some people know how to dance just by playing video games and they happen to be really good at it. I wonder if these moves can look attractive on a real dance floor.
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Seeing Virtual Reality is Cool. You know what’s cooler? Seeing AND Walking in Virtual Reality! Scott tells you about Virtuix Omni, the omnidirectional treadmill that takes the Oculus Rift VR experience steps further (literally). When you walk, turn, jump, or run on the Omni, your in-game character moves with you.
continue reading "Immersive Gaming Just Got Better – Oculus Rift + Virtuix Omni"

Oculus Rift is a head-tracking technology and the future of virtual reality. This is one of the coolest things seen at CES 2013.
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So thanks to a few drunken or plain dumb forklift operators that ended up on YouTube, Tactus has come up with a solution to help them with a 3D Forklift simulator.
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Graphic evolution of First Person Shooters. Only one FPS per year, so don’t expect to see all the major titles. Original games without any mod, rendered in actual resolutions of the period. For those of you who have recognized the game in the screenshot, you are all my heroes. I used to play Wolfenstein ET for years and I really miss it. I hope people are still playing that game online.
continue reading "Evolution of First Person Shooting Games – 1992 to 2012"

Finally someone has rendered what Super Mario 3 would look like if it was a 3D game. I am not sure if I agree with most of these graphics, I think it could have been done better.
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Visceral Games built the horrific, immersive environment of Dead Space 3 through audio and visual elements that create a reality for terror to exist in.
continue reading "The Importance of Immersive Sound Design in Games"

SuperUber’s OctoCloud is an eight-person slingshot video game played in morphing landscapes projected onto a three-dimensional sculpture.
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What would be the most inexpensive way to build a flight simulator? Use an already made industrial robotic arm! This might be world’s most realistic driving or flight simulator, considering that you are in a cocoon that can pivot in any direction.
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Dive into the development of Crysis 3, the newest edition of the hyper-realistic first-person shooter series pushing the bounds of gaming. As well as the development of two other exciting modern games, how it’s made and what were the challenges of their creation.
continue reading "Behind The Scenes of Modern Video Game Making"

How awesome is this, the HyperSpin Ultimate Arcade Machine? What exactly makes this “ultimate”, you ask? Why it plays over 50,000 games on a 55-inch Samsung 3D LED smart TV. It also comes with all those controllers you see there and is powered by a Dell Alienware Aurora R4 equipped with a six-core Intel Core i7 4.1GHz CPU, 16GB RAM, 4TB HDD and 3GB AMD Radeon 7950 graphics. It is also equipped with an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. The sheer amount of games you have on this is staggering. It will cost you though: a steep $19,995.

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This vapor screen is not new technology, it has been out for quite some time. However combined with a game such as Fruit Ninja might be a new thing. Check out the “Most Advanced Holograms” post.
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The problem with old arcade games is not that they are old and boring, it is that they have been overplayed. If you think about it, many of the current popular games sold as “apps” are almost all remakes of the old ones. And most of these new popular games in apps that sell by millions are very simple with rather primitive graphics, kind of like the old PacMan. But now we have a new twist to PacMan, gravity controlled which needs to come to Android ASAP because I am waiting, impatiently!
continue reading "New Twist to the Old PacMan Game – Gravity Controlled"

The Ikei Laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of System Design is developing virtual body technology that utilizes the five senses. In addition to using conventional audio and video footage , this technology can recreate smells as well as the feel of the wind and of stepping on the ground.
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Finally! A way to make waiting for the walking light to turn green less bothersome. A street in Germany seems to have implemented the game ‘pong’ in their light posts so as people wait for their right of way they can play pong against random strangers from across the street. Not a bad way to kill time and make a new friend!

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Valve is planning to release the Source Filmmaker to let gamers animate and record their own videos using the game developer’s titles.
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Sony Online Entertainment and Image Metrics SOEmote for EverQuest II Puts Players in the game with transfer of facial expressions and voice onto the avatar. Don’t you wonder how come this was not invented before?
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New Transformers ride delivers an amazing 4k x 4k visual experience, created at ILM using NVIDIA GPUs. The ride offers unprecedented 3D immersion but at a cost of about $100 USD per person.
continue reading "Transformers The Ride 3D – Hollywood’s High Tech Attraction"

By far the most impressive collection of video games and consoles owned by one individual. He probably never leaves that room and the room is in a underground bunker protected by two giant bears with lasers on their necks!
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MoleBot is a mole robot built under a transformable game-board inspired table that allows people to enjoy playful interactions with everyday objects and props, and experience what it feels like to have a mole live under your table.
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The first video game where real cars are used as controllers. The ball is virtual but the controllers are two Smart cars and are very much real driving back and forth. What a genius marketing idea!
continue reading "Playing Pong With Real Cars as Controllers"

Build by the Gadget Show for Channel 5 in the UK this simulator is probably the best simulator after the USA’s military battlefield simulator that we have not seen on Youtube yet.
continue reading "Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator"

Game developer, Quantic Dream, showed off an impressive short film at GDC 2012 to demonstrate its new motion capture technology, which was rendered by a PS3 in real time
continue reading "Short Movie – Kara – Demonstration of Real-time Motion Capture"

Fishing Spirits, by Namco Bandai Games, is an arcade fishing medal game for eight players and features force feedback controllers. It will be in game arcades in Japan from July 2012.
continue reading "Realistic Fishing Action Game with Pull Force Feedback"

I love Japan just because they love to innovate. Sega has made a concept called Maimai which is pretty much like GuitarHero but on a more energetic platform, tracking your movements with a camera.
continue reading "Sega’s New Dance Rhythm Frenzy Game – Maimai"

At “Fetes des luimieres” which means light show festival in French, these artists made it possible for everyone to enjoy a game of old school flipper on a building in Lyon, France. Made by CT Light Concept
continue reading "Urban Flipper – Play Some Old School Flipper On a Building?"

It is not revolutionary technology but an interesting idea, instead of using your finger muscles to control Mario, why not use your forearms? It’s probably a concept that can improve the gaming experience of amputees.
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This lizard did not need much learning to play this Ant Crusher game. What I wonder is how many people will call PETA for lizard abuse after this clip because it is a little crual watching an animal work so hard and get no ants.
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3D artist Jonathan Fletcher rendered this player select screen of Mario brothers looking rather ugly with a twist towards BP and the oil spil in the Gulf of Mexico. I might like this game but it all depends how he plans on rendering the princess.
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This video game simulator takes Battlefield 3 to a new level, it is potentially the future of gaming. Featuring wireless weapon, omni-directional treadmill, motion tracking, surround sound, paintball guns, ambient lighting, five hd projectors, 360 degree dome and more!
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