I thought that only happened in movies,” he tells me. He stitched together an automatic BB gun and a video camera with some home-made machine-vision software to make a weapon worthy of defending your fort. Back in college, Rasmussen was the first person to make an optical-tracking sentry gun. He’s no stranger to making sci-fi dreams come true. “I’ve wanted a Holodeck since I was a kid,” says Atlas inventor and Protagonist founder Aaron Rasmussen. Chasing aliens or exploring dungeons could become an alternative to going to the gym. Play with Atlas and when you walk forward your in-game avatar walks forward, too. The patent-pending Atlas positioning system maps the markers and uses your phone’s accelerometer and gyroscopes to know where your are. Then you strap on your Oculus Rift VR goggles, an optional Razer Hydra-equipped gun or sword, and the Atlas chest mount for your iPhone.įire up the Oculus and Atlas iPhone app, and step into the future. You can print them at home, but Protagonist plans to give out vinyl ones that stick to the floor so they don’t get displaced. ![]() If you’ve got a huge living room it could work, but you’re better off in a garage, on a basketball court or in a warehouse. Here’s how startup Protagonist’s Atlas system works. Protagonist is Kickstarting Atlas to get real-space VR into the hands of developers, so they can build games that ditch joysticks and actually let you run-and-gun. ![]() Atlas is a cheap, new “walk-around” virtual reality system that uses markers you put on the ground to track your movements as you play with an Oculus Rift headset. ![]() Archenemies for decades, video games and exercise are about to unite.
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