Cool, so crims will never have to case joints in person anymore. Just log in and check it out online

i tried to sift this a couple days ago but the original news site's embed code didn't work. anyways, very cool.

*High *quality *engineering.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.

Reporter looks like Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest.

this seems like a realy brute force way of doing things ,, with a very low reseolutoin and inacuret result.

laser scanning enviroments for games is not a new thing , allso unless this was improved substantaily it wouild be largely uselss for games .

realy ud be better off using the current method where u generat a point cloud , and then having a device on train tracks , puting it on a back pack reduces the quality substantaily.

This is relatively less hassle then setting up such a jib, westy. I don't know why you would assume low resolution either, they never really divulge the camera resolution or the laser accuracy.

It's really not going to make games more realistic, it will just eliminate a lot of the work you would have to do to recreate a real building.

Anyone else think that if this backpack guy was to start shouting "MORE DOTS, MORE DOTS, KROOSHIM RUN TO THE CENTRE, 50 DKP MINUS COS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO DO!" he'd sound a little bit like someone familiar?

Pretty sure I think I heard the reporter say "Why not fly INTO these buildings too?"

Yep. 00:54.

Funny how innocent phrases can bring back bad memories sometimes.

It will make games more realistic if it greatly expands the amount of world available in the game, and it has the potential to do so. Plus let you play the areas *you* want to play, like your office building

Cool. Though their slagging of robots aside, I think a bot would be doing a better job in the flat areas then the dude does; less error correction.

>> ^EmptyFriend:

i tried to sift this a couple days ago but the original news site's embed code didn't work. anyways, very cool.


You have to be a Silver Star or higher.

Of course the embed checker won't actually tell you that, but I'm sure it has fun watching people spend an hour trying to figure out what they did wrong until they finally give up out of frustration.

... so yea, I had the same issue once.

the videogame reference is absolutely useless
there's nothing that could be gained from this technology in regular modern 'videogame', as the term stands today
the quality of output is way too low for anything usable
however, there's potentially huge uses for this in augmented reality applications and games
though, the technology isn't exactly new, and technology like the depth-camera for xbox kinect is already superior for implementing AR stuff (in non-xbox related context)

Best part of this is the 1950's style "on/off" switch! Love it!

Does the backback prevent the beating of NERDS?

>> ^quantumushroom:

Does the backback prevent the beating of NERDS?


No, but it makes a very nice model of their attackers.