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This game cube will actually fit in your pocket. It’s a new interactive cube game called levelHead. The technology is fairly simple. Software is used to detect the cube’s motion and a set of digital cameras then display the appropriate image, depending on your response. Currently, it is still being worked on. As it stands now, the players job is to guide a wandering silhouette through this amazing new cube world. For instance, if you move the cube left, the person will walk left. The goal is to direct him to the exit of the virtual world inside. You can check out a video of the game after the jump.
The plan is to have many virtual blocks that connect together for a larger and more complicated experience. You can imagine the kinds of interesting gameplay that would ensue, all based on what blocks go together with other certain blocks. The man behind this new game, Julian Oliver, plans to release it as an open source project in the near future.
And so the geometric shape of the cube continues to make it’s mark in video game history. From Q-bert jumping on color changing cubes, to Mario hitting them with his noggin. All hail the cube!
[Technabob] VIA [Gizmodo]
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well, the way you presented it, it sounded like the cube was actually made of screens, when the real case is that you just turn the cube around in front of a camera, and then on your tv screen, you can see the representation of the game placed onto footage of the cube..
its not like you could play this game without having a big camera set up, and watching the game on your tv screen.
nevertheless… i like the idea, and i think theres enormous potential for a game like this. it seems to be using similar technology to “Eye of Judgement” that cool ps3 card game that comes with the EYE camera… cool shit.
I think it will be improved upon very quickly. There is alot of potential here.
Like Joel says, its vital that people know this will not have screens - unless it is improved upon at a later date.
Couldnt they just use some form of motion sensors, like the ones on the iPhone, that detect what axis the image should be on? I feel like with a combination of that and multi-faceted LCD screens, along with a few other things, it would be able to move out of the tv and be ’self-sustainable’ in a way.
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