LiamH Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Birmingham, UK (17th October 2011) – Battlefield 3, one of the most highly anticipated games of 2011 is yet to hit the shelves, but UK technology programme The Gadget Show, gained exclusive access to a pre-release level and hand-built a simulator to play it. As part of a challenge for the new series of the show, presenters Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry brought together a team of design experts and an amazing array of technology worth £500,000 ($650,000) to build this one-off creation. Centred on the world’s first, portable omni-directional treadmill (designed by Swedish company MSE Weibull) the simulator lets you control the movements of a Battlefield 3 character with your own body. Other key technology employed includes: 12 paintball markers that allow the player, in real time, to feel the enemy gunfire experienced in the game; a wireless gun system; ambient LED lighting; and an Xbox Kinect camera hack. The idea for the simulator came in July this year when The Gadget Show realised that graphically-sophisticated games are held back only by the way many of us play them - sat in front of 1 static monitor. By projecting the game inside a 360-degree, 4 metre high and 9 metre wide video dome (provided by Igloo Vision) the gamers’ experience is made as visceral and immersive as possible. Ten infra-red motion tracking cameras continually monitor the real-time movements of the gamer on the omni-directional treadmill. This data is sent to the PC running Battlefield 3 to control the speed and direction of the in-game character. The same cameras also track the direction in which the gamer points their wireless gun. Using this information the simulator can rotate the 180-degree projected gaming image around the dome to keep the gamer immersed in the action. The immersive experience is completed by a pixel-mapped, ambient LED lighting system used to flood the dome with colours direct from the game; and a bespoke Kinect camera hack makes it possible for jumping and crouching in the dome to be replicated in the game.
stevenlong1985 Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 AMAZING! I saw it last night before going to bed had the biggest simile on my face
DJ-Jonesy Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Reminds me of the film Gamer with Gerrard Butler. Looks absoulty awsome tho
Tricky_Dicky Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Just an FYI, the company that made that is called RoboChallenge and do some fantastic school events where they come in and do builds/projects with the children.
sonofsanta Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Holy... Stuff the home cinema, when I get my mansion, I'm having this instead
stevenlong1985 Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 (edited) new multi-player video from BF3 just come out today, can not wait!!! Edited October 21, 2011 by ZeroHour
irsprint84 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Thank god its coming out in school holidays!
irsprint84 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Thank god its coming out in school holidays! and watch for the hilarity of people shooting each others planes on that aircraft carrier map!
irsprint84 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 though will miss dropping supplies on people as commander and accidently airstriking whole team
ZeroHour Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 new multi-player video from BF3 just come out today, can not wait!!! Just to say thats amazing, CoD looks like toy town now.... BF3 FTW
Butters Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 Just to say thats amazing, CoD looks like toy town now.... BF3 FTW I've played MW3 at a games event and it's exactly the same as MW2 whereas BF has pretty much revamped itself. My Pre-load has now finished and to patiently wait until Thursday when it launches. Zero - need to chat you this weekend about a server!
ihaveaproblem Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 I still need to pre-order for pc I thought the digital download would be cheaper but after looking on Orgin it's £39.99 Simulator looks great fun. If anyone wants to play together ( PC ) I'll be happy to join:)
irsprint84 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 I ve seen the thursday release date, but heard places getting it on tuesday?
ZeroHour Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 I still need to pre-order for pc I thought the digital download would be cheaper but after looking on Orgin it's £39.99 Simulator looks great fun. If anyone wants to play together ( PC ) I'll be happy to join:) We will have a have a platoon (aka guild/clan) and you can join it, also you can be a member of more then one platoon fyi.
Guest Guest Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 (edited) Just to say thats amazing, CoD looks like toy town now.... BF3 FTW Was about to say the same thing. IMO COD4 onwards has always been very much a console game which is ported to PC, where as BF3 looks like it will be a proper PC game. The graphics look very good indeed, wonder what it will look like on the consoles as I take it the above footage is from a PC. Hopefully I won't be wrong as I haven't enjoyed a FPS since probably RTCW lol! COD always seemed far too kiddy for me, fingers crossed BF3 will be for big kids! Edited October 21, 2011 by Guest
irsprint84 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 I still need to pre-order for pc I thought the digital download would be cheaper but after looking on Orgin it's £39.99 Simulator looks great fun. If anyone wants to play together ( PC ) I'll be happy to join:) Just to play karland again is worth the money! ant he other old bf2 maps just no commander
ihaveaproblem Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 Just to play karland again is worth the money! ant he other old bf2 maps just no commander emm? never played BF 2 You get extra maps if buy from Orgin?
ZeroHour Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 Was about to say the same thing. IMO COD4 onwards has always been very much a console game which is ported to PC, where as BF3 looks very much like it will be a proper PC game. The graphics look very good indeed, wonder what it will look like on the consoles as I take it the above footage is from a PC. That will be all PC, 64/32 man is PC only I think too. The beta had similar graphics to consoles, aka medium textures as they call it, full release looks better.
ZeroHour Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 emm? never played BF 2 You get extra maps if buy from Orgin? Its basically a pre-order bonus, stores like game have it too but not sure where best pre-order price is so I just got it off origin.
irsprint84 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 yeah 4 extra, BF3 is a vast improvement but karkland and oman are still well designed maps the best I ve played in any game
Guest Guest Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 That will be all PC, 64/32 man is PC only I think too. The beta had similar graphics to consoles, aka medium textures as they call it, full release looks better. So 16 man for console?!! One day they will catch up with PCs Looking at that footage I can't believe MS and Sony think they are going to get another few years out of their respective consoles, imo they hit their limit 2 years ago. BF3 will only widen the gap between what is possible and what the consoles are capable of...
ihaveaproblem Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 I will pre-order from amazon Battlefield 3 - Limited Edition: Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games It's £10 cheaper, and you get those maps you mentioned + some skins Amazon.co.uk Message No that I care much about the skins... just the price!
ZeroHour Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 So 16 man for console?!! One day they will catch up with PCs Looking at that footage I can't believe MS and Sony think they are going to get another few years out of their respective consoles, imo they hit their limit 2 years ago. BF3 will only widen the gap between what is possible and what the consoles are capable of... 24 man but yeh sometimes they will catch up.
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