New video game HMD console - Sort of like a mobile Holodeck
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:49 pm
Hey everyone,
I work for a start-up company called Sulon Technologies. We have a new take on HMD tech that understands the boundaries of the room you're in and uses that information to build dynamic virtual environments or populate your FOV with augmented characters and objects (to scale), which are all adapted to your physical surroundings.
This basically means you can walk around freely in your game/application without worrying about walking into walls as the virtual and real world share the same dimensions. People have started to dub our device a "mobile holodeck" and it kind of stuck, however we're calling the device 'GVX' and the technology 'Xtreme Reality.'
The system is centered around a dedicated 'console' device, which basically is a beefed up smartphone minus the cellular function and runs on the Snapdragon 800 processor. This piece houses stereoscopic cameras and slides into the HMD to act as the screen (6") and the HMD's eyes.
We are working with Sixense to continue the convergence of the real and the virtual, giving users 1 to 1 control with high accuracy and low latency via custom wireless controllers.
Please take a look at our first developer blog. It's light on the system details, but the idea is to open up people's perception of what's possible to produce on the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5wZHGR3FY
and this is the website:
www.sulontechnologies.com
I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments!
I work for a start-up company called Sulon Technologies. We have a new take on HMD tech that understands the boundaries of the room you're in and uses that information to build dynamic virtual environments or populate your FOV with augmented characters and objects (to scale), which are all adapted to your physical surroundings.
This basically means you can walk around freely in your game/application without worrying about walking into walls as the virtual and real world share the same dimensions. People have started to dub our device a "mobile holodeck" and it kind of stuck, however we're calling the device 'GVX' and the technology 'Xtreme Reality.'
The system is centered around a dedicated 'console' device, which basically is a beefed up smartphone minus the cellular function and runs on the Snapdragon 800 processor. This piece houses stereoscopic cameras and slides into the HMD to act as the screen (6") and the HMD's eyes.
We are working with Sixense to continue the convergence of the real and the virtual, giving users 1 to 1 control with high accuracy and low latency via custom wireless controllers.
Please take a look at our first developer blog. It's light on the system details, but the idea is to open up people's perception of what's possible to produce on the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5wZHGR3FY
and this is the website:
www.sulontechnologies.com
I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments!