an idea to turn bob into true virtual reality

[TheFamilyMan]

This is what makes the Johnny Lee video so compelling:

1. The viewing projection is constructed from the head tracking input such that the image rendered on the monitor appears as if the viewer is looking through a window (instead of a monitor) into a virtual 3d world (and not only that, but that virtual world can poke itself through the window into our realm). The side effect of this is psychological: we perceive the virtual reality as if it really exists as part of the reality we're immediately experiencing all around us, i.e. as part of the room in which we are sitting.

Now this is a really cool effect, but it has major problems when it comes to sims and games in general. Consider:

2. Does the room your sitting in while you fly your P-51 belong as part of the experience of flying your P-51 (well, at least for those who have not constructed a sim-pit)?

3. Johnny Lee's 'window' is at a fixed position in the virtual 3d space: you can walk up to it but you can't go through it, nor does the virtual reality 'on the other side of the wall' exist beside you or behind you. So you say "why not move the window"? This will solve this problem, but it will ruin the "Johnny Lee" effect unless the monitor itself moves in a like manner.

So I take back most of my original posts. You can have a "wii 6DOF" which will make a sim/game seem like it exists within a realm beyond a window that your monitor has become (got to consider item 3 above may be a 'serious' limitation). But, when I'm in the cockpit of my F-6, I want to think that I'm actually in and surrounded by the aircraft (for which my TIR helps greatly), rather than feel like I'm sitting in front of my computer interacting with a F-6 through a window that just happens to be my monitor. The earlier comment I made about TIR and FSX that still stands: when in a cessina, as you lean over to look out the side window (of the aircraft, that is), the landscape opens up as you approach the window, just like in the wii demo. If you want a really cool 3D effect with your TIR that is available now, just get a 3 meter projector system to replace your monitor. You'll be barfing up dinner in no time (or at least someone else watching will). Enjoy!