Imagine if you could perform daily activities from a third person view watching everything you do every step of the way. With the Avatar Machine created by Marc Owens, you can actually get a third person view of the world around you.
“Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head-mounted interface,” says Owens' Vimeo page.
The machine is a VR suit constructed with a camera that hovers behind the user. This camera gives the user a third person view of the world that can be seen through the suit’s headset. It also seems to have gotten an overhaul from the puffy suit iterations seen before. Check out the video here.
Owens' site says that the Avatar Machine “potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.” If you had access to this suit, what would you do (other than look ridiculous)?
OMG IM GONNA JACK SOME CARS AND BEAT SOME PROSTITUTES...right?
also first!!!...and second!!!
This is kind of crazy, I would freak out. Can you imagine, it isn't like controlling a player with your paddle. I am sure getting your brain to make the connection would be tough.
O.o wow... talk about taking it up to the line and then just mindlessly leaping over it.
holy woah that would be sweet.
Wow. Just wow.
Itd be pretty cool if it skimmed down a bit so you didnt look so weird or it could be used as a sweet suit if they change it to look like different characters and people.
I would try to leap from building to building like Ezio...but only fail miserably
what?
haha! this had me cracking up! the bystanders must have be so weirded out. this is some pretty amazing technology.. makes me ponder the extents of the future of gaming.
weird.
I prefer to "play" my life in first person view. HAHA!
Dumbest idea of all time? No, but pretty high up the list.
I think this would work better as a HUD or video on your car's navigation computer, so you can double check before changing lanes, etc. Makes more sense than walking around like an idiot.
That is awesome but i bet it would get old.
Dude that sounds cool! might have military applications? But seriously Imagine it would make just walking around kinda fantastic. Though it sounds like there's some stupid camera bobbing around behind ala mario 64? A wii 2 app perhaps?
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I agree with aidan - I can see this working better as a GPS supplement or something than actually having use as a suit.
It would look cool to start doing some freerunning. Ha Ha
10 dollars says that guy got a heatstroke walking around in that :/