BAM for Future Pinball - 3D effect with 2D equipment

[Carl Spiby]

This is really amazing, it works on the principle of head tracking and changing the viewpoint on the screen to trick you into thinking it's a 3D image with depth.

All you need is a couple of Wiimotes and an IR emitter.

More videos here: http://www.ravarcade.pl/?en_movies,33

 

[night]

See here, this is how our tablets and phones will look like in a few years from now.

 

[kimkom]

WOW! What the hell! That's incredible.

 

[night]

Surfing porn will never be the same.

 

[Kolchak357]

See here, this is how our tablets and phones will look like in a few years from now.

I pray you are correct about that.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Thats sweeeeet!

 

[sotie]

That is so amazing!!! It makes me want to build a cabinet so badly!

 

[sotie]

Here's Tron Legacy:

 

[esp2000]

This is pretty amazing. Would definately be fun to play like that.

 

[Carl Spiby]

Here's Tron Legacy:

That isn't Stern Tron Legacy...

 

[Kolchak357]

Almost made me motion sick. Truly amazing.

 

[atlantis1982]

That is far out.

 

[kimkom]

So how does this technology work?

I take it the camera holder is wearing some kind of device that transmits his location witihin the room, and the renderer is constantly updating the image in relation to that?

If that's the case, what sort of hit is there in frame rate?

 

[Carl Spiby]

So how does this technology work?

I take it the camera holder is wearing some kind of device that transmits his location witihin the room, and the renderer is constantly updating the image in relation to that?

If that's the case, what sort of hit is there in frame rate?

He's using the 'camera' from 2 wii remotes and he's wearing an IR emitter (just an IR led wired to a battery).

The performance hit isn't very significant in comparison to using face tracking with a webcam.

 

[The loafer]

FYI I have tried the "ps3eye" mode (uses the ps3 eye camera), no other devices required as it uses face tracking. Although in my current setup, I am having some tracking issues, no doubt because the ps3eye is sitting on top of the backbox; it is still an incredible achievement and it is blowing the socks off anyone trying my cab. There are many settings you can adjust to help with the tracking, the developer of BAM has done wonders here.

 

[The loafer]

Here is a demo of BAM on my pincab, using the PS3 Eyetoy module. As mentioned above, only special hardware is a $15 used PS3 Eyetoy camera, nothing else.

 

[sotie]

That is amazing. I'm so jealous!

 

[Heretic]

Dear god im gonna sell a kidney now

 

[shimoda]

I have a few of those cameras, time to set up!

 

[kimkom]

Here is a demo of BAM on my pincab, using the PS3 Eyetoy module. As mentioned above, only special hardware is a $15 used PS3 Eyetoy camera, nothing else.

Thanks for sharing!

Looks good but as you say, not as accurate looking as the Wiimote set-up. Sense of depth looks a little shallow too, do you think this is down to the height of the camera?

Hope you can post some more vids of your set-up soon. Any chance you could post one during gameplay?

Thanks