While it seems like the industry’s penchant for hyperbole has long exhausted the best buzzwords, Microvision has coined a good one: “infinite reality.” Not quite virtual reality, and not quite 3D, Microvision’s “Project Tuatara” is a novel concept that enables a new kind of gaming.
Gamers are unlikely to be familiar with Microvision, as its breakthrough product is an ultra-portable video projector. However, when you attach said projector technology to a mouse-emulating gyroscopic gun controller, you have something that might pique our interest. At New York Comic Con, Microvision demonstrated how Project Tuatara can be applied to games, by syncing the gun to a wireless HDMI-equipped laptop running Capcom’s Lost Planet 2 — oh, and by inflating a giant black dome to play in.
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