Thursday, January 8, 2015

Sixense's motion-controlled VR lightsaber is just as much fun as it looks


I finally know what it's like to use a lightsaber, kind of. Not a replica, with the plastic light-up blade and little speaker. I know what it feels like to grab a hilt and see it extend, then parry volley after volley of blasts from a training remote, sending them shooting across the room. Or to drag it downward and watch it burn tracks into the floor. I also know what it's like to spin around a Las Vegas hotel room, flailing my arms while holding two small black plastic barbells and worrying that I might hit someone with a nonexistent blade. The fact that these two things are so compatible speaks well of Sixense, the company behind the motion controllers I'm using.


The Sixense STEM (Sixense Tracking Embedded Module) is a motion tracker...


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