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M1combat
Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 11:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've always been a bit of a geek...

I picked up a a set of eDimensional shutter glasses. They tell your graphics card to render one frame for your right eye, then another for your left eye. Alternating with the refresh rate of your monitor, the lenses are either made clear or opaque. This creates a VERY cool 3D effect in games.

If you play PC games at all (and you have a monitor that will put out some high enough refresh rates)... You need a pair of these. I'm using 1024x768@80hz right now and the shutter effect is slightly noticeable. I'll report if it gets annoying. The 3D effect is extremely noticeable.

In the application demo there's an object that literally looks like it's setting on my desk and spinning around. These are really neat.
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M1combat
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Doesn't seem to work in either of my newest games and I haven't tried any of the older ones yet... I'm sure some updated drivers or software is in order and it'll be fine...
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Azbueller
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 04:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Dude, you need to ride more!!!!
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M1combat
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

: )... I have a broken throttle cable....
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Blackbelt
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

see what happens when a bikers ride is Out of commision...? we get sucked into other less "tough" roles....
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M1combat
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

LOL... really though, it's quite amazing : )... besides, I was a geek long before I found Buell : ).
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Blackbelt
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ditto.. my bike is still waiting for new paint, and it is 70 and SUNNY OUT!! IN MIGHIGAN IN APRIL!!! AND I CAN'T RIDE... so i am stuck inside playing theif, and Tribes Vengence... lol
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Drfuyutsuki
Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

M1:
When the bike is in the shop find ways to have fun in your cage
What Normal riders do when their bike is broke
Found this one in one of the archives

(Message edited by drfuyutsuki on April 05, 2005)
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Glitch
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 08:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

When I was waiting for may stator to be replaced I had to drive to my BRAG meeting. I had just received my new leathers too. I was bummed to say the least.
I made up for it though, by dragging my knee from the wifes car as I left the SMHD&Buell parking lot. It got a big laugh. I got the idea from the picture above.
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M1combat
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's one of my favorite pics... I have one of a guy hanging off one of those spring mounted animal jobies at a kids park too.
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M1combat
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

anyway... I tried World of Warcraft last night with this new device...


F'N WOW!

For a bit of silver you can ride a Griffon to different places of the world (the WoW world is HUGE). I spent half of my freakin silver just admiring the new found DEPTH of my monitor. I swear... It looks like my monitor is a good 10 feet deep. It's a bit weird to get used to focusing properly because your eyes are trained to be seeing a 2D image but once you figure it out it's VERY cool.

In WoW the only issue I had is that the mouse cursor is part of the interface, so if you focus at something that's far away, you end up seeing two cursors and the actual cursor position is in the center... It makes it a little tough to target stuff, but I'm sure there will be a fix.

I tried HL2 and found that the interface there is part of the 3D world, so it gets "seperated" and weird looking. I guess there are tweaks to a couple files that will fix this, but I didn't try them. I will soon.

Brother's in Arms - Road to Hill 30 was the same story (it may use the HL2 engine).

So far though, I can w/o doubt say that these shutter glasses are on par with my Thrust Master F16-FLCS and my Logitech MoMo Force steering wheel/pedal set...

Now all I need to do is get on making a cockpit for my racing and flight sims...

Then I need to make a projection TV that'll do 1024X768 resolution (I'll need a 15" LCD that has a failed back light off of Ebay and one of those old overhead projectors you'd see in a high school : )).

Yeah... I'm a geek : ).
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Blackbelt
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

post some pics i wanna see some pics.. i wanna get a look at this new equipment....
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Rocketman
Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 08:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That guys wearing an AGV Sheene rep!!!

Rocket
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M1combat
Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 12:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Is that good or bad?

BB -

You can't see the effect w/o the glasses. Try
www.edimensional.com
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Bill00
Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 06:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You need one of these.
http://www.force-dynamics.com/
Check out the videos.
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M1combat
Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 06:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah... I do... It would be better if it'd do 360 degree rotation both ways though, then I could use it with a flight sim. I think that just having a 10' projection screen will make me happy though... For a while : ).
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