iMyth

Month: November 2016

  • Zero Latency In Orlando

    Just when I thought I was going to write off Zero Latency as an iMyth competitor, it seems they have brought the battle to the iMyth on their own home town of Orlando. Zero Latency is the outfit from Melbourne Australia who are creating ware-house scale Zombie shootem-ups. They evidently have been going like gang-busters in Australia, China and Japan. Now they plan to open a facility in Orlando.

    I can’t say I blame them since this is where we were planning. Oh well, If you like running around and shooting zombies. This will be the place to be! You have to give them credit. After a conversation with Sensics’ Yuval Boger, Zero Latency has created a home brewed solution for warehouse scaled tracking and it’s pretty good! I look forward giving this Zero Latency experience a try. It will be housed, no doubt some where near iDrive at the Main Event Entertainment facility.

    The Zero Latency system will be based on the OSVR HDK 2.0 platform with Alienware PC backpacks. This also means they will not be using top of the line NVidea VR cards. As of this writing I am not aware of a PC Backpack sporting an nVidea 1080 card as of yet. iMyth will be improving their experience by implementing Wireless HTC Vive using Steam Tracking. While we may not have warehouse scale tracking as of yet, this will sure to be coming. Otherwise, we’ll just have to implement our technology!

    As mentioned before, Zero Latency has done a great job capturing the Zombie market. iMyth has always and will continually be focused on generating the highest quality, physically immersive experiences which are collaborative and reconfigurable. iMyth may no longer be the only VR experience in town. However, it will always have the best, high quality experiences.

  • Wireless Vive

    I don’t normally write about improvements in technology. I would rather focus on Story and experience related topics. However this is groundbreaking and will have a significant impact on the HTC Vive.

    A Chinese company called TPCast has created a device add-on for the HTC Vive making it wireless. While some folks may balk at the $220 price tag on top of the $800 they already plunked down for the Vive, this may just be one of the key components needed to help get the VR Cade concept of the ground This is especially true with iMyth.

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    One of the distractions for iMyth is we have created a 20’x20′ play space area. Regretfully this is longer than the actual cable is able to reach. We were planning to look into expanding the cable. However, for the new year, this wireless solution will be much better. Since the cable would have been very expensive, this more expensive alternative will be a welcome addition to the iMyth arsenal.

    Folks may not want to pay extra to have this wireless luxury at home. However, peripherals and accessories such as this may be just the hook to entice people to get out of their homes and have an iMyth experience!