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McEWAN Shane (spm@atmos) wrote:
: Craig Becker (jlpi...@austin.ibm.com) theorised:

: >Just musing...from a programmer's perspective, I wonder how difficult
: >it would be to modify the DOOM code to support VR goggles and a power-
: >glove...

: I'd be happy if liquid crystal shutter glasses were supported. You wouldn't
: get immersion but you would get the 3D effect. It would halve the frame rate,
: though.

Shutter glasses would be nice, but I think the stereo-scopic 3D effect caused
 by the shutter glasses would cause the 3D illusion in Doom to break up.  One
 major thing is that objects in the game are only Hollywood store-fronts.  I
 think most everyone knows what I mean - Kill something (the big floating eyes
 work well) and stand fairly close to it.  Now stand in place and rotate.  The
 bit-map of the dead thing rotates with you.  This is subtle in the game unless
 you stop and look around, but the LCD shutter-glasses would make it look as
 though you were strolling past 2D fronts.

The frame-rate would halve and then some.  The game engine would think you were
 constantly moving.  A petty detail, but worthy of note.

Another thing to note is the phosphor in your monitor.  the phosphor can't
 extinguish itself fast enough to keep up with the application.  This causes 
 a small bit of ghosting around the edges of objects with a high contrast 
 compared with it's background.  I think this would get annoying during intense
 game-play.

: Perhaps support for the Sega VR Goggles will be added once they come onto
: the market.

Perhaps.  Someone will no doubt hack an interface or the PC...Or at least I 
 hope.  :)
: --
:         "Life is like a joss-stick........it stinks and then it's over."
:                         - "Red Dwarf: Better Than Life"

Just a few thoughts.  I'd like to hear any other opinions.

-Jason Weiler
<wei...@rpi.edu>