Last week I kicked a dinosaur in the face. Two years after HTC Vive was initially shown to a select amount of journalists at Mobile World Congress, I’ve now tested out the next big advancement coming to the best virtual reality headset on the market.
CloudGate Studio and HTC have been showing off its new full body awareness tracking system and it’s genuinely the best thing I’ve seen at MWC this year.
Island 359 is an already-on-the-market Vive game, but it has been adapted to show off the new full body motion control made by CloudGate studio. The sensors that power this are called Virtual Self and it’s the next step for HTC Vive in becoming the most immersive experience in gaming.
Usually Island 359 allows you to shoot and stab dinosaurs, but Virtual Self has now meant I was able to kick Compsognathus – those little evil ones from the start of The Lost World: Jurassic Park – as well.
Kicking… dinosaurs… in the face
So how does kicking dinosaurs work? What’s going on to make this interaction possible? For now, Virtual Self is just a concept but it may one day be released as an accessory for those who already own a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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