Paul Coulton's Forum Nokia Blog - Motion Control for 3-D Mobile Virtual/Augmented Reality Worlds

Openess

coultonp — 2008-03-06T18:29:34Z

Mark

We wouldlike people to be able to use it but it would also be nice for Fadi to have somekind of reward for his hard work.
At the moment we are building in a range of different options as you quite rightly pointed out for driving you could use tilt as acceleration and brake as with did with TiltRacer but you dont get the same users experience in terms of keeping the image central to your view.
The image in the video is taken from the tv out so yes you could use it for a console game and its one of the things we want to play with in the space version.

Open source?

Sorcery-ltd — 2008-03-06T15:53:04Z

Following ltomuta's blog posts the other day about open source projects on Symbian/S60, perhaps this API implementation could be released as open source? (possibly Nokia could purchase it from the current copyright holders).

I've no idea how flexible it is but it might be nice to be able to modify it for a driving game so you tilt forward to accelerate, back to brake and then steer fairly naturally by turning left and right.

Also, does it work with the TV output on the N95? Then you've just turned your phone into one of those games console inside a controller things you get full of retro games.

Mark

re:Fantastic

coultonp — 2008-03-06T10:53:33Z

Mark

Cheers for the comments. I very much had Elite and X-Wing in mind when we were thinking about the two player game. I am hoping we may be able to have it to take to the S60 summit. I hoping we will be able to pulish the API soon as we are very keen to see this area extended.

coultonp — 2008-03-06T10:49:55Z

Itomuta

We would love to talk to someone about partnering with the API to get it out to the community. I would hate for this to be another of my projects that just sat on a shelf somewhere.

Fantastic!

Sorcery-ltd — 2008-03-06T10:43:54Z

You've crossed one of my "projects to get around to when I have time one day" off the list! To really complete it we just need a series of games like the one you mention as a first extension. I'm thinking of some fairly old games like Elite and X-Wing.

I think space is better for this technology because you have no issues with angle of phone relative to horizon. I'd also imagined this with the phone in portrait orientation so you can use the phone like a joystick with the just the fire button in the centre - entirely one-handed gaming.

Keep up the fantastic work and do let us know if you're going to publish this API somehow.

Mark

ltomuta — 2008-03-06T07:52:38Z

Will this new API be published? Partnered maybe? ;)