Head tracking on the DSi

[Balrogs.Pain]

Amazing. (I suck with tags)

 

[ProtoKun7]

There you go.

Open the editor on my post to see how it's done if you'd like. (By pressing quote on my post).

EDIT: Just watched it...that looks...fantastic

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

[youtube]h5QSclrIdlE[/youtube]

Fixed for you.

Ontopic: This is awesome.

EDIT: Damn you Proto and Hadrian.

 

[Balrogs.Pain]

Ah, thank you, I put the full URL rather than just the unique ID of the video.

 

[Slyakin]

...Amazing... I hope to see features like that here soon!

 

[Master Mo]

Looks amazing. But I wonder: What does this game use to track the head? Some strap or how does it work?

 

[Balrogs.Pain]

Looks amazing. But I wonder: What does this game use to track the head? Some strap or how does it work?

Well, I guess you can't really call it head tracking but it's using the camera to know if you have moved your DSi left, right, up, or down. At least thats what I think.

 

[_Chaz_]

Holy shit!


I want a DSi now because of this. I still think I'm holding out for the DS2, though.





I want to play that game that they're showing. I love games like that.

 

[Hop2089]

When is this coming out in Japan?

Date please

 

[ProtoKun7]

[youtube]h5QSclrIdlE[/youtube]

Fixed for you.

Ontopic: This is awesome.

EDIT: Damn you Proto and Hadrian.
LOL

Also, I lol'd at Hadrian's edit note

QUOTE(Master Mo @ Feb 26 2010, 09:50 PM) Looks amazing. But I wonder: What does this game use to track the head? Some strap or how does it work?

Well, the DSi does have a camera in the hinge...

 

[V!olaPlayer]

This could be used in a multitude of ways. For example, there is no need for a camera panning button. You can just move your head, and the game will respond likewise. Of course, we all know that this technology requires a light room, and that it must be perfected to work. In such a case as the Warioware game released for the DSiShop, we see that the technology, quite frankly, sucks. But of course, it's only a matter of time before it gets better. I also see many more games with this for movement or the such, like a small DDR game played on a table with the DSi in book-style, and placed at a 90 degree angle to prevent it from falling. The user uses their two fingers to make dance moves, and the game responds likewise. I don't know, but this could be the start of something big!

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Wow, I hadn't even thought of this! This would make buying a DSi interesting!

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Wow, I hadn't even thought of this! This would make buying a DSi interesting!

Buying a DSi is always interesting.

 

[ProtoKun7]

It'd be good is was put into common usage; they could make this useful for things like puzzles or specialised images and stuff

Nintendo, you've actually done something right again.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

It'd be good is was put into common usage; they could make this useful for things like puzzles or specialised images and stuff

Nintendo, you've actually done something right again.

Nah, it's too much of a gimmick for common usage, but then again, it could make games a lot more interesting...

 

[ProtoKun7]

It'd be good is was put into common usage; they could make this useful for things like puzzles or specialised images and stuff

Nintendo, you've actually done something right again.

Nah, it's too much of a gimmick for common usage, but then again, it could make games a lot more interesting...

Well, no, I didn't mean common usage in the sense that it would be used everywhere, that'd be annoying, and in dim areas it wold make a lot of games harder, but it shouldn't be limited to maybe one or two games. Maybe used in some games as the main control, with a symbol on the box (or the DSiWare information), or maybe an optional extra on some others. Either way, it looks brilliant in that video

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Looks interesting but not very practical. I think using it as a gameplay mechanic itself would be gimmicky. If they made a world in an environment that could use this, like a RPG or something, and made it just part of the game, that would be quite cool.

 

[_Chaz_]

I wonder: Could this be put to use in the upcoming Pokemon game?

 

[ProtoKun7]

Looks interesting but not very practical. I think using it as a gameplay mechanic itself would be gimmicky. If they made a world in an environment that could use this, like a RPG or something, and made it just part of the game, that would be quite cool.

This is the sort of thing I originally meant, more of an extra, and something that allows you to see more of the environment without actually needing it to control anything vital.

 

[Jakob95]

You're going to get bored of this game in 10min just like any other DSiWare.