Battlefield 3 Simulator

[Katipo66]

Thought this was worthy of its own thread, would love to play Arma like this, good work out on the big maps, also not sure how they could simulate hills... very cool though.

http://youtu.be/g07jw0XvwFk

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Battlefield 3, one of the most highly
anticipated games of 2011 is yet to hit the shelves, but UK technology programme The Gadget Show, gained exclusive access to a pre-release level and hand-built a simulator to play it.

As part of a challenge for the new series of the show, presenters Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry brought together a team of design experts and an amazing array of technology worth £500,000 ($650,000) to build this one-off creation.

Centred on the world's first, portable omni-directional treadmill (designed by Swedish company MSE Weibull) the simulator lets you control the movements of a Battlefield 3 character with your own body. Other key technology employed includes: 12 paintball markers that allow the player, in real time, to feel the enemy gunfire experienced in the game; a wireless gun system; ambient LED lighting; and an Xbox Kinect camera hack.

The idea for the simulator came in July this year when The Gadget Show realised that graphically-sophisticated games are held back only by the way many of us play them - sat in front of 1 static monitor. By projecting the game inside a 360-degree, 4 metre high and 9 metre wide video dome (provided by Igloo Vision) the gamers' experience is made as visceral and immersive as possible.

Ten infra-red motion tracking cameras continually monitor the real-time movements of the gamer on the omni-directional treadmill. This data is sent to the PC running Battlefield 3 to control the speed and direction of the in-game character.

The same cameras also track the direction in which the gamer points their wireless gun. Using this information the simulator can rotate the 180-degree projected gaming image around the dome to keep the gamer immersed in the action.

The immersive experience is completed by a pixel-mapped, ambient LED lighting system used to flood the dome with colours direct from the game; and a bespoke Kinect camera hack makes it possible for jumping and crouching in the dome to be replicated in the game.

[Smurf]

Marines train in something like this while deployed in ships. At least, saw some videos about it. VBS also support somekind of this "simulator".

[Katipo66]

Marines train in something like this while deployed in ships. At least, saw some videos about it. VBS also support somekind of this "simulator".

Yea i think i remember some footage of those, they were just flat screens in booth's though, this looks to have some type of suit to simulate being shot? maybe some guys on the side with paint ball guns

[HyperU2]

Marines train in something like this while deployed in ships. At least, saw some videos about it. VBS also support somekind of this "simulator".

We used FATS, http://virtra.com/military-training

[Dysta]

We used FATS, http://virtra.com/military-training

Too bad it isn't that popular in internet, but I rather like this system to be honest.

[Smurf]

Yeah, this is new:

Other key technology employed includes: 12 paintball markers that allow the player, in real time, to feel the enemy gunfire experienced in the game;

Not a good idea to play on those while playing something as fast paced as BF. Too many bruises

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Reminds me of the film 'Gamer'.

[Dysta]

Why trainer/soldier always shouts a lot, when they have to keep silent from getting spotted? I mean, shouting for what? Fun? Epic?

[RobertHammer]

With that "Machine" you can make a simulator even with MW3 or Postal 2 lol

[Katipo66]

With that "Machine" you can make a simulator even with MW3 or Postal 2 lol

Or Arma.