Why buy an expensive practical reality headset when you could amaze your smartphone into a bum cardboard box ? That ’s the idea behindGoogle Cardboard . And soon , you might be able to interact with VR worlds using a slice of cardboard , too .
When Realiteer co - founder Shuo Zhang face me at this week’sSilicon Valley Virtual Reality exhibition , I ’ve got ta admit I did n’t trust his pitch shot . He told me a DreamWorks VFX artist had developed the bum VR motion accountant ever made … and then he pulled out this .
A cardboard gun with a Rorschach trial printed on top . unbalanced , right-hand ?
Except it turns out this composition board contraption can be tracked astonishingly well by a smartphone television camera .
Yes , that ’s a bubble gun for hire : the estimate came to the aforementioned DreamWorks VFX creative person when his kid would n’t barricade breaking his beloved toy house of cards gun and make a big pile .
There ’s even a reading with a working trigger — also made of cardboard — so you’re able to give notice said gun , or spellbind thing . The company call in it RealTrigger .
As humble as it go , this idea could work one of practical realness ’s with child problems right now — the lack of a nice room to get your script in on the action mechanism . sure as shooting , the Oculus Riftwill let you see , but you ca n’t bear on . The Sony Morpheuswill let you use a PlayStation Move motion restrainer , but we learned at SVVR today that those wo n’t inevitably come in the box . The HTC Vive will useValve ’s amazing Lighthouse trailing system , but it ’s not clear if others will take on the technology .
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Right now , there are a flock of company promoting their own motility controllers , but game developers do n’t fuck if any of them will come after , so it ’s still a little problematical to bet money on movement at all . But here come a bantam startup with a motility control that anyone could print out and use . Controllers for everyone !
Of course , Realiteer has its own agenda too — it wants to get developers hooked on the estimate so it can make money licensing the technical school . Which , I theorize , is better than ask consumer to foot the bank bill . But maybe Google or another big VR company can loose this approximation for everyone . We could utilise a least common denominator when it comes to VR motion restraint .
In the meanwhile , you’re able to tick out the idea at Kickstarter . They ’re ask for a $ 10 pledge to try the basic version for yourself . [ Kickstarter ]
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