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March 19th, 2012, 15:42 GMT · By

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Kinect and Augmented Reality Literally Immerse You into Games

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“Immersion” is something companies like to drone on when advertising a new monitor or graphics card, or whatever else.

Basically, “immersion” has come to mean that sensation of being inside a game or movie while playing/watching it.

A certain gamer with some knowledge in electronics and/or gadgetry managed to get closer to that meaning of the word than most everyone else.

Basically, he took and combined a Sony HMZ-T1 head-mounted display, a Kinect sensor and a TrackIR5 head tracking gizmo, among other things.

You probably won't earn points for style if anyone is watching you while playing around Skyrim with this thing on.

Still, at $1,500, it is a good deal compared to actual, “official” simulators that can drain even $650,000 from your bank account. Go here to read exactly what and how the guy did it.

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Comment #1 by: tim on 31 Jan 2013, 20:19 UTC reply to this comment

the hitting reaction time is way to slow compared with what your doing needs an in game custom animation

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