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July 27, 2007
Stick Your Head In It, It's First Person Pinball
The Furminator is a pinball machine that puts the player in a first person perspective similar to games like Half Life and Halo. Like being inside a huge VR-helmet, the player's head is stuck into the capsule. His nose is situated right behind the flipper fingers, only centimeters away from the ball. Sealed off from reality and with his head arrested inside a force-feedback-helmet, the sound- and light effects, the mechanical noises of the pinball and the absorbing perspective create a highly immersive mechatronic environment, if not a bit dizzying. Seriously, this is what our parents were afraid of during the height of arcades in the 80's - a bunch of zombie like video game freaks.
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Posted by tranism at 2:10 AM | Permalink
Comments
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Wow!
Posted by: Pinball Wizard at July 31, 2007 5:57 PM
Very cool idea, but a bit old eh guys?
We had one of those in Antwerp (Belgium) at a game expo two years ago.
Nevertheless, I had hours of fun on the thing, creepy when the ball comes rolling towards your head at high speed.
Posted by: Black box at August 21, 2007 6:56 AM