Call of Duty 5 and DirectX 11

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: Call of Duty 5 and DirectX 11

The following is from a FoxNews article. I'm sure as more research is put into this, it'll eventually make its way into gaming. It will be cool if this becomes part of gaming sometime in our lifetime. This could really make for some wild game play. I get so into CoD2 now, that sometimes I get the poo scared out of me. This has the potential to make it way too intense. Call of Duty 5 and DirectX 11, well I wish it was gonna be that quick. This would make any game very extreme to play. Cool

FOXNEWS:
New virtual-reality experiments show the brain can be tricked into believing it's outside the body, lending credence to some patients' strange claims and shedding light on how the brain might generate its "self-image."
“We have decades of intense research on visual perception, but not very much yet on body perception," said Henrik Ehrsson of University College London.
"But that may change, now [that] virtual reality offers a way to manipulate full-body perception more systematically and probe out-of-body experiences,” said Olaf Blanke, a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology neuroscientist.
The researchers worked on separate studies which are detailed in the Aug. 24 online edition of the journal Science.
Virtual trickery
Researchers equipped subjects with virtual-reality goggles that showed images from a stereoscopic video camera setup — two cameras spaced like a pair of eyes. When placed behind the person wearing the goggles, the cameras acted as a "virtual self" that looked at the subject's back.
As subjects watched themselves from behind, an experimenter prodded their chests with one hand while prodding the air just below the cameras at the same time.
Because subjects could see the experimenter's hand but not the spot it was poking, researchers said subjects felt as if they were being poked in the chest — outside of their body.
“This was a bizarre, fascinating experience for the participants," Ehrsson said. "It felt absolutely real for them and was not scary. Many of them giggled and said ‘Wow, this is so weird.’”
Where's my body?
But the researchers didn't stop there. They also performed the experiment with cameras behind a wigged mannequin to test the brain's limits of self-perception.
"When they saw a bodily shape, they still felt it was them," said Bigna Lenggenhager, a psychologist also with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
She explained that touching both the fake body and the real body at the same time tricked many of the subjects.
"They felt a touch was there, but couldn't pinpoint it," Lenggenhager said, noting that some felt as if the mannequin was their own body.
Going even further to test the effect, researchers removed subjects' goggles and asked them to move to where they believed they were standing during the experiment.
Almost every time, she said, they overshot and walked back to their virtual self's location — not to where their real or simulated body had been situated.
"They didn't localize themselves where their real body was," Lenggenhager told LiveScience.com. "Where the camera was is where they believed they were."
Hammer time
Ehrsson's group also tested the technique's limits by swinging a hammer just below the camera setup, or virtual self.
By measuring how much subjects sweated — a bodily response to fear — Ehrsson said he showed that subjects felt threatened by the hammer swings.
Lenggenhager noted that the setup, while an extremely useful tool for testing the limits of self-perception, is only the beginning of better research on the brain.
"We've shown the body and self [are] somehow separate in the brain, even though we didn't invoke a completely realistic [out-of-body experience]," she said.
Lenggenhager thinks the next step is to monitor the brain's activity with special electrodes during similar experiments. By doing so, the researcher and her colleagues hope to better understand which regions of the brain are responsible for self-perception.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:22 am Post subject:

Who would still wanna be bashed, run over by a tank or shot in Call of Duty? Shocked

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still waiting on the holodeck. mmm... holodeck pron... Twisted Evil

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:02 am Post subject:

Hehehe...

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

I wonder whos team I will play on ...... hmmmmmm
Please come to the house that POONTIME built! No sub-sonic speeds or silly nades that kill you from half a map away... what ya say there smokie shall we light the spotlight and re-call POONcrew from the four corners of the earth to fight evil once more ?!?! lol

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There are a lot of "really good" players here who don't feel the need to keep bragging...

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POONTIME