Jayne is a girl’s name.
September 13th, 2008This is possibly the most interesting toy I have bought in a while. I took a bit of a gamble buying it, unsure if it was a crappy gimmick, or something actually usable.
Turns out, with a good bit of practice, it’s probably going to be the latter. There’s a lot of fiddling involved to get it working, and a REAL LOT of practice just to get the hang of making it do anything meaningful at all, but after less than an hour of mucking about, I was able to play Unreal Tournament 3 with some semblance of competence.
Now, the above isn’t exactly a display of my finest moments playing an FPS - the bots are on Novice level, and I’m clearly jumping around randomally, killing myself with the occasional rocket, running into walls, and generally acting like a retarded rabbit. However, outside of using a mouse to move the camera, everything else - forward and backward movement, side stepping, jumping, main and alt weapon fire - is being achieved via micro-movements in my facial muscles. If you can’t be bothered watching all the way to the end, I managed 3rd place out of 6. I’ve actually placed 1st a couple of times, but of course I wasn’t recording those…
The future is coming, folks.
UPDATE [14/09/08]:
After a few more hours practice, it seems I am improving. The below video is from this morning - a win, including 2 Killing Sprees, on the Shangri La map. I’m still fighting Novice bots, and I still have a bit of trouble at times, but I do feel I’m improving. As before, I’m using the mouse to aim, but everything else is via the NIA.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I’d still destroy you, facial ticks or otherwise.
Sounds interesting though — would like to try it out sometime.
September 27th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
The important question though is have you used it while drunk?
See, before I went to the link I thought you had bought that gun thingy they released for FPS’s, which looks kinda gimmicky but potentially good if you got use to it.
On the other hand, what you did buy just looks hugely gimmicky at first glance, and so I would have just ignored it even if I could afford it.
However, you have proven a couple of things here:
a) You have too much money
b) you shouldn’t be allowed to shop on the net 8)
Well done with it though, and I’m glad you’re having fun.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
So.. can I bind sneeze to rocketjump?