Sorry the link got wrong last time, apperantly I could not have an ending slash in the link - sorry

www.youtube.com/jDomeProject

aldul Wrote:It'd also be interesting to pipe the image through a fisheye lens to avoid the distortion around the edges. Interesting invention!

It would be nice, but the idea is to play as you always do and look straight ahead. Then the distortion wont matter so much.

Experiment: try and read a text on your side while looking straight ahead. It isn't possible - it doesn't even have to be in focus - all that matter is movment which "you will detect in the corner of your eye".

Daddyo Wrote:I'm unable to see the video at work, but if its related to wrapping the view to your whole peripheral vision, then great! I've been waiting for when games began providing a low-resolution edge with a wide fov, might take some load off the graphics generation too. A warped lense sounds like a great way to get the picture with the right edge scale to the eyes. Have you ever wondered why virtual reality isn't popular? My guess is everyone ends up getting motion sickness :@

I also hope games will be developed for the jDome - but only you can help me by spreading the word of the jDome to anyone you might think be interested.

A warped lense is, as I said, nice, but it costs much and the costs I want to keep down. Besides - you don't actually need it.

What I would like is some graphics-drivers which fishbowls the game and blacks out the corners.

I've played with a jDome for hours and have not felt any motion sickness - if you're not prone to motion sickness with your normal games, chances are slim you'll be it with a jDome.

TronFAQ Wrote: This isn't really going to give you the result you want, but visit this page and scroll down to the part about widescreen monitors: http://www.ldso.net/tronfaq/pages/video.html The FOV can only partially be adjusted in Tron 2.0. You can change the character model geometry FOV, but not the world geometry.

Thank you for your tip, but as you've already stated - it is not what I'm after - is there any mods of TRON 2.0? (and hence modders how might know about this?)

I've tried to understand why the players field of view is warped in Tron 2.0, friends of mine brought it up, and were working on a solution to fix it, but I don't recall anyone fixing the issue that the central focus point in tron is only correct for about 1/3 of the center of your screen in the "world". For some reason the screen to the left and right of your view bends around and flattens, kinda annoying, but otherwise unnoticable(unless you're strafing left and right and staring at objects). Unless you create a corrective lens, I don't see it working w/o source, as Tronfaq mentioned.

Which btw, you may be able to get ahold of$ ), but that's a whole different ballgame, as the mouse grows wings and flies w/ your idea and possibly your money.. I've heard you may be able to get license to use the engine, but I have no idea what may be involved with Tron 2.0.

Definitely a cool product. Hard to have in the home unless your rich (high-res projector) and have an dedicated game room. Would be awesome for and arcade or Professional gaming leagues. Funto stand over the payers shoulder and see the action from that view.

zook_one Wrote:Would be awesome for and arcade or Professional gaming leagues.

Actually, Namco had a prototype arcade cabinet for a beta version of "Starblade: Operation Blue Planet". The cabinet hardware produced a very similar image to what is in the video.

Starblade: Operation Blue Planet-



Cancelled after public testing.

I'll guess that it's because the projectors blocking your view, otherwise it would have been really cool! There couldnt be a patent infringment because of that.

If I were you I would download the directx 10 sdk. There's example programs that demonstrate the various effects available. You can dig around the help files too http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139765.aspx. I'd find a game programmer too to come up with the code to do it, to hand off as part of the license, and loading benchmarks.

I've seen games that use a lense effect, like water spots on your view. I would think it'd be very fast to And a circular mask that's black on the outside, to give it a round window effect on the picture.
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Regardless, it seems a logical thing to do would be have a specific video driver for the video card?

After all, the video driver is a lot of what you work with for most games and given the pixel location distortion, a good video driver would take the image and know how to distort the image appropriately so that when projected it would appear correct.

Especially since the video card isn't just working with pixels but rather plastering bitmaps over triangles.

Almost like a simple "Video Processing" effect...

Anyway, I don't really know the answer and I might be suggesting something stupid.... But the thought did come to mind -

Nice work you've done too - I've seen something like this at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney... They actually made a complete documentary like this with a special camera and it does feel a lot more like you're there.

David.