[Community Showcase] Wii-U Panarama Mode Demo

1/12/12 10:41pm

tl;dr

Wii-U allows you to use "peripheral vision" while you play.

www.youtube.com/watch

I don't know how else to describe this aside from simply amazing. One of the techs, which was indicated in the Wii-U demo from E3 last year, but not talked about much, is the ability to use the tablet’s screen as your peripheral vision.

In the video, you can see the real time demonstration. As a virtual “car” travels down a recreation of a Tokyo street, the user can move the tablet around in 3-D space and get real time video of what they’re seeing from those angles.

Say, for example, that you’re playing a FPS and you’re walking down a narrow corridor with large windows on one side. You could, in effect, keep walking straight down the corridor, but physically turn your body and use the tablet’s screen to look around and observe your environment without deviating from your path.

The second demo in the video is the same Zelda demo we’ve already seen before. While it is impressive, don’t get your hopes up. Much like the infamous GameCube tech demo showcasing Link and Ganondorf fighting, this is merely a tech demo and not an indication of a new Zelda game. Even though a new Zelda game IS assuredly on its way to the Wii-U, it’s unrealistic to hold this demo up as your lofty expectation for what the game will ultimately be.

Overall, though, pretty nifty tech if you ask me!

» Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05fWaaATU8
» Tagged In: #community showcase, #demo, #Nintendo, #real time, #tech, #vision, #Wii, #Wii U, #Wii-U

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g1 DISCUSSIONS

southsing

April 10, 2012 - 9:20pm

Holy Shiz! :O Must. Have!

ultraguy

January 13, 2012 - 12:51pm

I can't wait until E3, when we will finally be able to see some full fledged games running on this system.(pikmin is the first that comes to mind)

Nemo SomeGuy

January 13, 2012 - 9:52am

Pretty interesting, however I wonder how useful the 360 vision would be in actual gameplay. If it's Zelda or other platforming/puzzle games I guess it would be helpful. However in shooters and action games, I doubt it will be used.

fiddlebender

January 13, 2012 - 7:50am

Looks good. Nothing spectacular yet though so I'll keep waiting. On a sidenote, I hate the term "HD". I mean, sure, 1080p looks good on 40" screens but so does 720p on a 32" screen. I hate how the words "Full HD" are always connected to an exact resolution.

roostertoo

January 13, 2012 - 3:23am

I actually want to see more of the tokyo street thing itself. From what we can see it looks pretty good

Dr. Wondertainment

January 13, 2012 - 1:52am

"Say, for example, that you’re playing a FPS and you’re walking down a narrow corridor with large windows on one side. You could, in effect, keep walking straight down the corridor, but physically turn your body and use the tablet’s screen to look around and observe your environment without deviating from your path."

....thank you for describing to us the ability to strafe, a feature thats been in FPS's for about, ooh, 15 years.

Hey, lookit me. I've got a controllable camera, rendering this idea completely pointless, and in a lot of ways really stupid.