Bubblevision!

[SonicSilicon]

Check this out!<br><br>To think Dan East said that the curving of walls in earlier versions of PocketQuake was a bug, not a feature.~ (Yes, I'm kidding.) Seriously, having true 170 degree Field of View would be a wonderful feature, but from what I've read this implementation is such a hack that it might yield only one frame per second on an iPAQ (that's just a guestimate, but not an unrealistic one.)

[Paul]

This is weird, I found this site just this morning! <br><br>I'm gonna try this out tonight, looks amazing.

[chuck]

That's the weirdest looking modification i've ever seen. Hrrmmm.. i think thats cheating though.. gives new meaning to Eyes in the Back of your Head.

[Moose or Chuck]

Well if you found that Quake "mod" you've probably seen TexQuake too. That thing kicks ass. Not that it would be playable or anything.

[Dan East]

You can achieve a similar, if not more distorted, effect by increasing the fov (Field Of View) variable.<br><br>Dan East

[Paul]

Thats why he made PanQuake, its less distorted

[SonicSilicon]

...that and it allows for a FoV greater than 170 degrees. Personally I found that around the 200 to 240 degree range gives a "natural" view (about as much as you could see in real life, perhaps a little bit more than that.) 150 degrees seems to fill the screen just right.<br><br>About it being a cheat, yeah it could be used as such. Running it at 360-400 degrees with the recently released "transparency cheat" and you would have visual omniscence. *shudder* At least anyone who wants to do that would have a plocky framerate.<br><br>Speaking of plocky framerates, I think fish-eye would work reasonably fast if the geometry was altered, not the rendering surface, but doing so would add a lot more polygons... hmm, no I wonder which would work better.

[Warren]

It's easier to have a really wide screen for 360 degree view, instead of making it all waving and weird.

[Moose or Chuck]

just bust out panoramic monitors, you'd only need like 10-12 14'' monitors wrapped around you desk and an awsome video driver.

[SonicSilicon]

Nah, Chuck, just four screens, like this:<br><br>One each left, right, front, and bellow (projected from above.) If someone could just make a consumer version (i.e. didn't cost a million U.S. dollars) they'd have a stranglehold on the Virtual Reality market. Of course, they'd also need software.

[Paul]

I'd prefer to use that big ball thing for vr, cant remember the name at the moment

[Moose or Chuck]

mine would look better

[SonicSilicon]

Your version may look better depending on the point of view, user or stander-by.<br><br>I also saw the bubble concept, which is only that. The C.A.V.E. already exists, in multiple units at that. The major problemwith the spherical (bubble) is that you only have the air inside to breath. I think they are on the right track with the "trackball" method for controling movement.

[Moose or Chuck]

youve now confused me, yes they have air to breathe, its kind of important to breath?!

[Paul]

the treadmill effect is the same used in holodecks so it seems better than the CAVE, to me. I think they got around that problem but i cant find the site i saw it on now...