Atlas: Virtual Reality Made Real

[Poohy14]

Atlas is a patent-pending system that uses optical tracking fused with accelerometers and gyros to locate you in a room. You put down special markers around a room wherever you want, map the room so Atlas knows where they are, and then strap your iPhone to your chest and it positions you within the room. It is meant to be used with a head mounted display like the Oculus Rift and a gaming laptop. It gives you a virtual world to play in, whether you want to play first-person-shooter-style games that will give you a killer workout in a half hour, or design epic fantasy adventures share with friends, or create educational modules to teach history, or...Jurassic Park. Someone should do Jurassic Park.

 

Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/62367895/atlas-virtual-reality-made-real

 

I think this will change how we could play games virtually and with multiplayer games

[rustikles]

Wouldn't this be severely limited by how big your room is? 

[Tonny]

Hmmm it looks like fun i hope that the project gets funded .

[WorldDominator]

Virtual Reality has always interested me, I've just never had the chance to use any of it myself :D

[Tonny]

Wouldn't this be limited by how big your room is? 

 

Well what if you place the markers outside lets say in a park?

[Hans Christian | Teri]

2 major problems with this. For now it's limited to the iPhone platform and much much worse you're limited to the size of your room.

[squirrl]

2 major problems with this. For now it's limited to the iPhone platform and much much worse you're limited to the size of your room.

Yup. I hate how they say that everyone has a smartphone too. I hate those things; plus it's not only limited to the iPhone, but also to  the 4s or greater. They really need to develop their own motion tracking addon that connects to the PC as an optional extra if they are doing it.

[Tonny]

2 major problems with this. For now it's limited to the iPhone platform and much much worse you're limited to the size of your room.

 

i don't think that you should play in your room 2 things first your room is no more than 5 meters long second its full with obstacles. 

;)

[rustikles]

Well what if you place the markers outside lets say in a park?

Because I can afford to rent out a park for my gaming sessions  :P. Imagine a park LAN kind of this with this though.

[Tonny]

Because I can afford to rent out a park for my gaming sessions  :P. Imagine a park LAN kind of this with this though.

Well i mean in public park it will be cool to get your friends and play Counter Strike.  :D

[Esivo]

Looks like I'll have to invest into buying a 100 acre farm so I can utilize this properly

Seems legit. Buy one for me as well while you're at it :p

[onionring]

you would only need a 360 degree treadmill at the center of the room.

[mymouthandi]

Ignoring the fact that you need an iPhone 4S or better and a big open space, it's not a bad idea. There is no doubt that in the long run it will be adapted to other smartphones. And, chances are that who ever owns an Oculus rift will probably also own a half decent smartphone. Finally, in the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively cheap way to get an even better VR experience.

 

I don't think it is perfect, but nothing is in it's first iteration and you have to start somewhere. 

[ChrisxIxCross]

Something like this would be more practical in a VR multiplayer arena type place where the game is mapped exactly to how it is in real life.BF3 close quarters with this tech would be so sick!

[diiPex]

The only scenario I see this to work would be by recreating and mapping out a map from a video game, but by that point it would probably be more fun just to play paintball on it...

[Wint3rSh0ck]

I challenge the Swiss to recreate Skyrim. They'd make absolute boat loads of tourist money.

[Esivo]

To be honest, it would be amazing to be able to make specifically engineered maps for this kind of thing for games like Call of Duty and then rent the place and just run around killing each other like paintball or airsoft, but this isn't happening from inside one's house.

 

Also you lose immersion by walking up or down stairs since you only go straight and I really don't like that.

 

 

We were talking about OMNI.. Imagine ATLAS maps..

[TopWargamer]

Neat project and I hope it gets funded, but this isn't the VR I want. 

 

Once the VR I want pops up, I will back it with the all the money I have. 

[criso8]

This is kind of cool. What I'm thinking is maybe rent out a conference room at a hotel and put these all over the floor. One thing. If there is a wall in vr and two people walk too close to that same wall but on either side of it, will they crash into each other. 

[Beskamir]

cool idea but i think my head will hurt after running into a wall...

 

edit: the omni is a better system since you can't run into walls. but this would work better on a several hundred square kilometer field

[Langdon]

"For iPhone"

No thanks. :P Cool idea though.