Environment | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 06 May 2015 11:34:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Environment | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 The Void combines laser tag with VR in a real space https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/the-void-combines-laser-tag-with-vr-in-a-real-space/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/the-void-combines-laser-tag-with-vr-in-a-real-space/#comments Wed, 06 May 2015 08:10:02 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=248224 Interacting with virtual reality is a little limited at the moment. You can nod your head or lean in and out if you have a DK2 and if you have a HTC Vibe, you might even be able to use some motion controls to grab things and move them around, but what about getting up …

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Interacting with virtual reality is a little limited at the moment. You can nod your head or lean in and out if you have a DK2 and if you have a HTC Vibe, you might even be able to use some motion controls to grab things and move them around, but what about getting up and walking around? What about touching the environment around you? Something like that would require wireless VR and a large enough space to interact with, which is exactly what The Void is. Using a real world that's skinned digitally in VR, the developers hope to create a brand new form of interactive entertainment.

By combining real world props and “4D” effects, with in-game enemies and binaural audio, the developers hope to make a unique gameplay experience that can only be found at their centres, which we're told will soon be opening around North and South America, Europe and Asia. This is a pretty ambitious goal, which should set off some sceptical alarms, but that's not the only thing that should.

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The hardware behind The Void is said to be a new type of head mounted display, called the Rapture. The official site claims it runs two 1080P, curved OLED displays that use quantum dots to “nearly double perceived resolution and colour range.” While it's not exactly clear how quantum dots would do that, it's difficult to imagine a company producing a VR headset this far in advance of industry stand outs like Oculus, without much prior experience.

As cool as the trailer is as a proof of concept too, it's clearly taking some liberties with what the actual experience will be like, as it makes out as if each character has full body tracking, which isn't mentioned anywhere by anyone in the video or accompanying materials.

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KitGuru Says: It's an amazing idea and could certainly work in the right hands, but we'll reserve full judgement for now until more details are released, because as it stands it sounds like a great idea and a lot of wishful thinking.

Then again I'd have to say that, lest I let my Knightmare fuelled brain overload with excitement.

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Vice airs Obama interview https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/vice-airs-obama-interview/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/vice-airs-obama-interview/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:10:28 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=240466 Last week Vice debuted a trailer of founder Shane Smith's sit down with US President Barack Obama, hinting at some of the topics that they had discussed earlier in the week. Now the interview has been released in full, touching on everything from climate change, to political gridlocks and even on the potential for legalising cannabis. …

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Last week Vice debuted a trailer of founder Shane Smith's sit down with US President Barack Obama, hinting at some of the topics that they had discussed earlier in the week. Now the interview has been released in full, touching on everything from climate change, to political gridlocks and even on the potential for legalising cannabis.

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With Vice's explosive expansion in recent years, going from an oft-called ‘hipster' upstart in documentary filmmaking to one of the world's largest media organisations in just a few years, many wondered in the build up to this interview whether it would maintain a somewhat counter-culture stance. A lot of people latched on to the idea that with corporate investment from the likes of Fox Media and 20th Century Fox, that Vice had become a shill and was no longer objective.

After watching the the interview with Obama, some people maintain that view, but others were quite pleased with the outcome as well.

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While Smith is rarely pressing throughout the interview, he does make a point of repeatedly putting across the concerns of young people. Obama's responses are often quite typical of a politician, but he reveals some more personable feelings at times too, suggesting that within the political machine of America, there is also often frustration at the short-sightedness of politicians.

He also alluded to many members of congress and elsewhere having far too tight a relationship with oil producing companies.

KitGuru Says: What did you guys think of the interview? I was hoping it would be a little longer myself. 

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