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| FPSLabs: Vuzix brings to the table something we have seen before, but theirs is repackaged in a smaller, more compact version. Is it necessarily better? Satuday I had an impromptu meeting with the folks over at Vuzix. In my search for a bit of FPSLabs content, I ran across the their company's name and remembered that they had sent me an email before the show that spoke of a personal viewing environment that was great for simulating a 62" screen at a 9 foot distance. This email did not speak of gaming, but when I wandered by their booth it was clear they were aiming at our market, as was apparent from the long lines to play games with the equipment. They had flight simulators, driving simulators, and first person shooter simulators. Of course, I wanted to speak to the makers of such a product and see if we couldn't get our hands on it. Surely, anything that produces the look I saw on the visitor's faces had to be worthy of an FPSLabs review. I stopped by the booth to inquire about who we should talk to regarding the product and somebody who spoke english came to greet me and invite me inside. Some of you may have read our review of the eMagin Z800 3DVisor. Now, we can't say for certain whether this product is better, but the specs are very impressive with a weight of only 3 ounces, wears like glasses, removable speakers, built-in microphone, USB Powered (no external power cable), and two 640x480 pixel displays that can generate up to a 1024x768 resolution when combined. This is fantastic, the eMagin Z800 3DVisor had similar features, but it required this hub looking thing that also required its own power supply. The Vuzix appears to only use a straight up cable to the laptop or desktop PC and requires one USB connection and a VGA connection. Nothing else is necessary from what I saw other than installing the drivers. I can't say much more than that until we are able to test one more directly.  I am curious to have one in the lab to test directly against the Z800 and see if the reduced size, weight, and equipment of the Vuzix makes it a better performer. To be honest, when I played with it at the show, I was pretty impressed. Without more time to sit with it I can't give it a true analysis, but my initial impressions were really positive. You check out the Vuzix line at Vuzix.com. |
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| Posted 20 Sep 2007 @ 05:54 by Harlyn Jenkins
Filed under: First Person Shooters, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, TGS  We came, we saw, we stood in lines, and we got lost on the trains! It was a great first day at the Tokyo Game Show! Each night after the show, I will be posting what was fun, cool, and/or plain weird from TGS. Check back each day for more info.
So, first things first, I PLAYED HALO 3! Not a demo, not a beta version, but the final release version. I know in a just a few days the rest of the world will get to play it, but hey - I just did! For those of you who are hardcore Halo fans, you will love it. Take everything you loved about 1 and 2, and add it to better weapons, interaction and graphic, and that is basically it. I then wandered over to play another coming release from a Microsoft game title, Project Gothem Racing 4. In a feature I have been wanting since PGR1, you can ride motorcycles in this one - of course, I rode the Ducati 998. A lot of fun to play, graphics were AMAZING, and all in all probably the best of the series yet. As you might be guessing by now, I spent a bit of time in the Microsoft area, but hey - they have some great titles right now! The next one to test my skills was Ace Combat 6. It has been a while since I have played a flight combat simulator that was fun enough to capture immediately, simple enough to fight after a couple of minutes, but not so simple I get bored easily. I can tell you this much - Ace Combat 6 will be in my collection, and probably spend a fair amount of time in my 360. We continued on to see what new offerings there were for the Wii, and I found a great Capcom game called We Love Golf! Definitely more difficult than Wii Golf, but by the 2nd hole, I scored a birdie (don't ask what my scores were on the holes 1 and 3, please...) I think this one will have a good run in the anime golf genre. On the hardware side, there were some cool video cards, console add-ons, etc, but the one that really caught my eye was a virtual reality goggle from Vuzix. They had it hooked to a computer playing Flight Simulator 10, and just by wearing the goggles and turning my head and body, I could see a full 360 degrees. It was strange actually turning my head and seeing the tail of the ultralight I was flying. Vuzix has promised us we can get our hands on one or two of these bad boys for a full review, so look for that in the near future. And of course, you can't forget the booth babes. They were there and oh so nice... So I am heading to bed. I still haven't adjusted to the time difference, but I only have 3 more days to check out the show! Tune in tomorrow - there will be more! |
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| | Someone on Flickr: 2007 Tokyo Game Show
Vuzix
I didn't get a hands-on (or eyes-on as the case may be) w/ this one. I did watch another guy go through the motions w/ it, though. He was ignoring the rep trying to get him to play MS Flight Simulator. Instead, he kept up and down and around. Anywhere but the screen. The view on the screen did move w/ the glasses, but given the amount of moving the guy did versus what was shown on the screen, I'm assuming that there's a lot more information presented in the goggles than on the PC screen.
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