The future of gaming: Cobra
(Credit: Human Media Lab)
Codenamed Cobra, that future has yet to come. But the guys at Queen's University in Ontario are working at it. Human Media Lab's Zi Ye and Hammad Khalid have developed a wearable computer and projector that works in tandem with a flexible screen fitted with flex-sensing wires and sensors.
To play, the mounted system projects the game onto the screen, which users can flex, tap or shake to activate an action. For instance, bending a corner back and releasing it could simulate shooting an arrow or even casting a fishing line.
Showcased recently at Atlanta's Computer-Human Interaction meeting, its developers say that "Cobra provides the gaming power of a laptop, while giving the gamer the freedom of a handheld". We'll see. For now, it can only get more exciting for gamers in a changing world of choices that include motion control interfaces and 3D gameplay.
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It's not the future of gaming. I'd rather pushing buttons or moving my body parts than bending, flexing, tapping, or shaking your screen. I think it would be an eyesore for gamers to watch the screen and the details in it while you're bending, flexing, tapping, or shaking it. Not to mention the whole process of thinking and remembering what kind of movement to do to make your character move or act as you intend to, while at the same precious moments you need your brain in order to planning your next move to make.
Future of gaming? No! I'd rather have gaming with thoughts.
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