3D Video Game - But, No Screen

xBlocks Red vs. Blue is a 2 player platform game with a twist: there is no tv or computer screen, the game takes place in a real 3d space.

Tristam and I created it a few months ago, we're still working on it, and have a few more videos to come. Stay tuned!

Thanks to ChillhomE.tv for the footage!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• xblocks
• idii
• exhibition
• game
• prototype
• mixed-reality
• augmented-reality
• videogame
• art

[joeythegeek1942]

are you using a projector and projecting the game on the 3d space?

[semiot]

pretty much, the idea was less about technology and more about a simpler question. If the technology did exist, what would playing a game feel like? Why can't i run around the game instead of watching the game space move itself around on a TV screen? It seemed like it would be more fun... so this is a quick n'dirty way of experiencing that without waiting for holographic projectors to escape a sci-fi novel ;)

[SailorBarsoom]

Is it fair to say that there's "no screen?" Don't the blocks themselves constitute a screen?

Of course, if the blocks themselves are virtual objects...

[semiot]

heh, fair enough, was trying to find the best way to describe it in one line, and since you're not looking at a monitor like you would in say, an augmented reality experience, figured that was a good way to do it, any other suggestions?

[FA113]

i don't think you understand what "3D" actually means. three dimensions means literally: "up/down, left/right, forward/backward."

you are living in three dimensional space right now, we all are.

i could go into the "fourth" dimension(time), but that would confuse the point i'm making.

[AlanSessler]

diddo. Unless I'm missing something. It looks like they put multiple projectors at different angles and lined them up rather nicely- but I don't think the 3d structure in anyway effects the 2d gameplay (other than make it extremely difficult.)

[syoncle]

@semiot Well we can't run around the game because we don't wanna be falling off cliffs and getting bullets up our asses.

[johnjay6370]

Great Job, This is what thinking out of the box is all about.

[vjrei]

Is a mapping video game... nice.

[vanvalldrey]

I think it's shit. Looks completely provisional, not the real deal.

[GeneralChurch]

its a giant uncalled for structure... kinda unwanted.

[Shikamaru524]

I love you. There. Happy?

[shawn106]

brilliant!!

[Garrison64]

Well that was a complete waste of time. I could walk out in my yard and stare at a pile of dog crap and feel about the same way.

[Khronnus]

Holy fuck. This is the first time I ever saw anyone try and back up their piece of shit chain mail.

You're a fucking moron and nothing good is going to happen.