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Onyx and Onyx 2 gaming , arcade and virtual worlds

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Ryan Fox
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Wrote the following at June 25, 2010, 2:46 a.m...

Has anyone heard of Canyon Runner? http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=canyon ... l&id=12613


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Wrote the following at June 26, 2010, 6:57 p.m...
No, but I have played the Magic Edge F18 simulator: http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=832

I also flew the aladdin magic carpet at disney world and have the home video to prove it ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_fShLIasAw

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Wrote the following at June 27, 2010, 10:58 a.m...
Canyon Runner looks many kinds of awesome... it's a shame the PC so handily trounced video arcades (at least in the US) because that kind of multiplayer gaming with unique controls isn't really viable for PC games. I shudder to think how much that must have cost, though - an Onyx RE2 *and* all of those custom seats/displays/controls...
It's impressive that the Onyx can drive all six at once - that's certainly one of the coolest things I've seen an Onyx do yet!

If you read through the Magic Edge link syberfreq provided, there's mention of a couple of other insanely-priced Onyx-based games as well.

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Wrote the following at June 27, 2010, 8:39 p.m...
bri3d wrote:
It's impressive that the Onyx can drive all six at once - that's certainly one of the coolest things I've seen an Onyx do yet!

That would be the RE2 multichannel . Here there be dragons :twisted: Resolution isn't so great, but it's just a game. 640x480 would blow your socks off back then... especially with a HMD.

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Wrote the following at June 28, 2010, 7:09 p.m...
sybrfreq wrote:
... especially with a HMD.

Somewhere I just came across a study of head mounted display versus cave. They put a group of people with acrophobia in a virtual high place then dropped the floor out from under them. The cave worked better at terrifying the vic ... err, subjects. (Seven out of ten participants are hoping to be released from mental institutions any day now :) )