Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game (hothardware.com) 44
MojoKid writes: The cool thing about playing Duck Hunt on the NES back in the day, was that you got to point a plastic gun at the television and shoot directly at fowl or clay discs. It offered a deeper level of immersion than what would have been possible with a standard controller. Such is the pitch for a new Kickstarter project called Rail Gun. Rail Gun is a series of attachments designed to work with your existing Air Soft gun. The pieces attach to any standard Air Soft gun to give you a "truly realistic and immersive experience for FPS games." There are five units that comprise the Rail Gun. The Main Unit houses the power and sensitivity buttons; the Jog Unit has an analog stick, special action button, and a few other components; the Weapon Unit lets you cycle through weapons, walk, drop items, and so forth; the Trigger Unit features the trigger and buttons for jumping, zooming, reloading, and crouching; and the USB Unit is what plugs into your PC or console. The Rail Gun uses fast rotation technology to track your vision based on where you're pointing your Air Soft gun. It also uses an algorithm to enhance aiming by detecting minor hand trembles, and you can adjust the sensitivity of this to your liking.
TV warranty repair (Score:2)
Re:Science! (Score:5, Insightful)
>> a generation's ingenuity and intellect being diverted into toys and stupid shit
Which is exactly where our generation started, before we produced web browsers, Google, Facebook, etc. Fucking around with random shit is good practice for disrupting the real world later - I wish my kids did MORE of it.
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You think cops wont shoot a white guy that points a gun at them? Shit, I wouldn't try it. Those guys are paranoid. Whenever I get pulled over at night I make sure my hands are up on the steering wheel where they can see them. Most of them are young, stupid and scared. Then there are the ones that get turned on by any chance to shoot somebody. If you think they wont shoot a white guy if they feel threatened you're a fool.
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not in my country. the complete absence of guns allows for some crazy shit:
* one can suddenly run towards the police AND the police will run towards one asking what's wrong (instead of assuming an attack)
* one can joke about stuff in public!
* one can wear a hoodie + baseball cap + sunglasses at the same time and nobody will care (because you're most likely 13)
* one can walk around with a gun and NOBODY will believe it's not a toy gun (police will have to investigate if reported but they will not pull out th
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If they tried that here you would have a stack of dead cops.
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Sweet, I could use one of those for my M16.
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cool but inefficient (Score:3)
Until we've all got 2D VR treadmills or holodecks, this won't be good enough. I'm sure it *feels* more immersive but you'll still be at the mercy of people with razor sharp mouse/keyboard skills.
Reminds me of playing Half-Life 2 with a P5 Dataglove http://cwonline.com/store/view... [cwonline.com] It was cool and I was aiming the gun and "pulling the trigger" but, like touchpad laptops, your arms get tired pretty quickly ...
(Relatedly, reminds me of the last time I shot skeet with a 12 gauge. My aim improved remarkably when a friend told me to "click" the skeet like a mouse pointer.)
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Most of that is true. However... (And I must...)
Assuming one is going for accuracy (and you probably should be unless you're laying down suppressive fire) then just as you start your exhale (and this should not have been from holding your breath) you *squeeze* the trigger. You do not pull the trigger. You squeeze it, like you do your wife's tit. You do not pull it, like you pull your pecker. Gently squeeze the trigger to the break point and even pause there if needed. When confident, squeeze the trigger.
Ide
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Actually, we've seen something vaguely similar before on the PS3, via its short-lived PS Move accessory. Remember that? The Wii-mote knock-off that nobody bought because it shipped with an unutterably shit Wii Sports knock-off as its launch-title, which required the controller to be recalibrated roughly every 3 picoseconds.
Thing is, there were (at least) two FPSes which had an option to use the PS Move: Killzone 3 and Resistance 3. The latter, despite being a great game, suffered from a poor implementation
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Unless the game is designed to move my character's aim independently of where I'm looking, this is a non-starter for me but not because of people who are pro at mouse/keyboard. I mean, if I aim at something that at the top of my field of vision, does that just move my character's head? It sounds too much like the weirdness that is mouse/keyboard with Star Citizen and Freelancer wrt gimbaled weapons.
Speaking of which, that leads to more problems. Ok, so let's say the game supports this device. So then do
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"Speaking of which, that leads to more problems. "
Like little Fatso having to hold up and point a gun for a couple of hours?
Re:For you grammar geeks (greaks?) (Score:4, Funny)
>> Why does the summary use the word "comprise" to mean "compose"?
Because the writer used phrases like "that comprise" instead of "in" to get his B- in his freshman composition class.
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That's more of a psychology question, since it's a standard use of the word.
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Actually it's not. There's two required parts to the (standard) definition: that the list of items be exhaustive, which is correct here and (here's the big one) that the subject of the verb be the thing, and the object of the verb be the parts: The rail gun comprises these five parts. That second part is important, shit would be crazy if we started having cars driving people and men biting dogs.
Screw Air Soft (Score:2)
I want to snap that onto my S&W 357 Magnum. Just to keep the skills in shape while watching the political debates.
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Signs that you may take muzzle safety less seriously than you should.
I know the difference between my TV set and real life. So, no. And none of these clowns are worthy of being idolized. Their images aren't sacred.
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I'm just waiting for the first guy to break his TV (Score:1)
I didn't know it was loaded!
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