Cycopl

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I came up with an idea tonight, I think it's a great idea and I think it's completely possible and can be totally awesome. It is an idea for a new game console, a somewhat portable game console. Probably about a portable as a Virtual Boy.

First of all, the sony PSP has showed us that large LCD screens aren't impossible on a portable console. They've managed to put a freaking huge screen on the PSP and it's not TOO expensive. So anyway, the screen of this console is worn on your head, like a virtual boy but definitely less bulky. The screen will be LCD, but not two separate screens but just a large widescreen maybe a little wider than PSP and a little less tall.

The controller would not be a controller at all but two gloves, kind of like NES power gloves. There would be no wires though, everything would connect to each other via bluetooth or some other wireless thingy. There would be pressure sensitive sensors in the gloves to sense when the hands are pressed together or when a certain part of the hand is touched, and motion sensors to detect movements of the hand through the air. Then pretty much, the controls in the game would all be executed by some hand gesture that would be explained in the game's instruction manual or tutorial or whatever.

To generalize it a lot, this could be considered a virtual boy with power glove controllers... but in modern games so much more is possible... Imagine first person shooters or action games that actually require you to aim with your hands rather than point with a mouse or try to aim with a controller. Or RPG's where you have the ability to cast different spells by doing different hand waves/gestures (like doing the hadoken pose with your hands or something). And in platform games, different control types are possible without requiring a joystick... like if you wanna go right, stick your thumb up and point it to the right, or vice versa for left. Rhythm based music games could get really complicated when requiring the movement of individual fingers.

The thing is, in modern technology this is possible, although it may be a little expensive, there's no reason it should exceed, say, $500. The best part would be the wireless capabilities, this would be completely awesome multiplayer... imagine like eight people in a room with goggles on their head pointing their hands in all different directions, it would look like an 80's new wave music video but it would still be awesome. I hope nintendo steals my idea or something, that would be awesome. If you guys do though please send me a free one because I don't want to pay for it.

revision 1: maybe instead of motions sensors, there could be some kind of positional locators in each glove that just detects the location of the other glove in correspondance with the other one and some game controls could be based on moving your hands around like that...

Posted by at April 2, 2005 02:19 AM