By Gerald Lynch
If you’ve ever thought that the only thing stopping you from truly immersing yourself in blowing demons’ limbs off in Doom was the feeling of a fiery blast of heat from the muzzle of your shotgun, then CES 2018 has the gadget for you.
The Vortx from Whirlwind FX looks like a desktop speaker for your computer, but is actually a ‘4D’ immersive gaming accessory. It analyses the game you’re playing, or video you’re watching, and then fires up a variable-temperature fan to blow corresponding heats at you, matching the onscreen intensity.
So, play a shooter and you’d feel the explosive blast of a hand grenade going off by your side, while you’d get an icy chill if you were watching ’80s arctic horror movie The Thing. Or Disney’s arctic horror movie, Frozen.
Algorithmic action
Whirlwind FX claims the Vortx will work with basically any PC game you throw at it, using a software plugin and object recognition algorithms to create physical stimulus that matches gameplay. Developers won’t have to do anything special to get it to work in other words – a key point that might allow the Vortx to outlive novelty status.
But it’s not the first device of its kind – …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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