Nerd Alert: Texas Instruments Giving Gamers a Better View
As the folks at Gizmodo point out, head-to-head competition on any gaming system is always tainted by the split screen. Opponents can get an advantage (or just get plain confused) by taking a peek at the other side of the screen. Texas Instruments has some newfangled DLP technology in the works (I hear it has something to do with an elephant, a little girl, and millions of tiny mirrors) that lets each player see only their car, tennis player, ninja, or whatever it is he or she is controlling. Follow the link for some video footage of the TI doohickey in action at the recent CES show.
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Not proud of this, but Tim used to come over to my house in the late ’90s and we would play Twisted Metal 2. We would split the screen, then put a chair in front of the TV, and a huge board on the chair, then sit on either side of the board, so that we couldn’t see what the other person was doing. That was before kids. When I had fun. [gunshot]
The way you describe it, Eric, you make us sound like lonely dorks. You forgot to mention — the, er — well, we …. fprl.
Oh, God, please don’t let my children grow up and ever comb the comments section of FrontBurner.
I hope that technology works for any DLP. I have a DLP television now I use for gaming and love it because of the fast response time and the fact that it’s immune to burn-in. I can’t wait to hear more about this technology as it would restore the fun and skill in multi player gaming!
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