Try not to get dizzy watching this projector strapped to a Wii-gun

<img border="0" alt="Try not to get dizzy watching this projector strapped to a Wii-gun" src="http://dvice.com/assets_c/2010/05/Wii-projector-gun-thumb-550x322-38749.jpg"><p>I didn't think I was one to get motion sick, but this projector strapped to a Wii-gun is making me think otherwise. Gamer Nirav Patel decided to take first-person shooting to the next level by combining a <a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2010/04/powerv-quad-cha.php">Wiimote Zapper</a>, a handheld ShowWX laser projector and a gyrometer to display a screen wherever his Zapper is pointing.</p> <p>Patel calls it a "glasses-free virtual reality first-person shooter," and it allows him to look around and navigate the game-world just by angling the Zapper and using its joystick. Right now, it's all a little unwieldy as the game (an open-source FPS called "Cube") is running off of Patel's laptop, which his controller is tethered to. That laptop? Patel's wearing it on his back, Ghostbusters-style.</p> <p>Check it out in the video down below.</p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://eclecti.cc/videogames/projecting-virtual-reality-with-a-microvision-showwx">Eclecticc</a>, via <a href="http://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/fps-controller-hacks-getting-easier/">Hack-A-Day</a>, via <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/12/laser-projector-stuck-to-another-gaming-device-for-faux-360-degr/">Joystiq</a></p>

Try not to get dizzy watching this projector strapped to a Wii-gun

I didn’t think I was one to get motion sick, but this projector strapped to a Wii-gun is making me think otherwise. Gamer Nirav Patel decided to take first-person shooting to the next level by combining a Wiimote Zapper, a handheld ShowWX laser projector and a gyrometer to display a screen wherever his Zapper is pointing.

Patel calls it a “glasses-free virtual reality first-person shooter,” and it allows him to look around and navigate the game-world just by angling the Zapper and using its joystick. Right now, it’s all a little unwieldy as the game (an open-source FPS called “Cube”) is running off of Patel’s laptop, which his controller is tethered to. That laptop? Patel’s wearing it on his back, Ghostbusters-style.

Check it out in the video down below.

Eclecticc, via Hack-A-Day, via Joystiq

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