Future developments

Hi fellow crew members,

I have been an avid gamer for about ten years now, though I have cooled off a lot since discovering The Paracast and now the Rockoids universe.

In fact my wife could now say she is a Paracast widow. :blush:

I got into video games via the original Playstation and right now I have a PS2. When I do play, now I usually favour PC games though as I like to play simulation type games like "Panzer Elite" and various Train sims as there seem to be more available for that format.

Anyway I will get to the point. I am not up to speed with what the current processing power of all game platforms may be, (I'm dumb like that) but I was just wondering, how far away from being able to play in a Holographic format we are.

Live long and prosper,

Mark

Thanks for the tip there Gene,

Just found this,

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/95054/holographic_gaming_in_the_future/

I am impressed with the smoothness of the colour.
Last time I heard anything about this idea, it was thought that creating a moving holographic image was less of a problem than creating a full colour image.

Mark

Can you imagine a "full immersion" version of a game like Doom or Resident Evil? Eeek! I already get creeped out playing the pc versions.

Hi Guys,

This past September Image Metrics released "The Emily Project".

After like a half a dozen views i was finally able to tell the difference between a human faceted computer generated image superimposed on actress Emily O'Brien. The give away was the skin tone pigment of the actress and that of the super imposed image of her computer generated face.

However the computer graphics suckered me in during the first viewing thinking it was her regular face. And not the super imposed graphically situated image they had worked on for 2 weeks. Without using any of that motion capture dot system on the actress.

Neat stuff for the future of games, videos, and movies.

Your welcome Gene, i also thought of David when posting this tidbit. Since it's more up his alley of vocation and such when it comes to imaging technology.

Not sure if he already knew of this technological development from Image Metrics itself?

Hello Again,

Where Dusty originally talked about Holography up above. It seems CNN was on a similar vibe during the Tuesday election coverage.

Here's a video segment of their version of Holography with a green room and 40 Hi-Def cameras.

Video Link

Here's an article posted on CNN back on Oct. 7th of this year on the topic of the technology in general. Article Link.

Five to ten years sounds awfully good which it was like five years ago when we heard video games would appear like that Final Fantasy Movie that bombed at the box office. In another 5 to 10 years from that point in time and we're still waiting. Electronic games haven't even gotten to look like rendered trailer movies. Even though the technology has made leaps and bounds since 5 years ago.

Maybe its more of a software issue than a hardware one in terms of nailing down a solid photo realistic enhanced environment for general game play?