https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUUsqhetX4
Jimmy Fallon invited Dr. Richard Marks and the PlayStation 4Â on to his show last night and gave the augmented reality game The Playroom a good kicking – quite literally.
The clip begins with Jimmy taking a close look at the controller before Dr. Marks releases the robots and chaos ensues.
Source: YouTube
yd
One thing about all the videos of PlayRoom confuses me every single time.
Flicking your drawing (possibly of crudely drawn body parts) off a tablet or phone.
It probably makes perfect sense in a normal situation, but when you’re looking at a video of it and all you can see is the PS4’s output, it looks wrong. You see someone flicking something towards you, and then it appears and flies away from you.
It just does something weird to my brain that I can’t process. It looks all wrong. Obviously, if you were stood there in front of the TV, it probably looks right. But when you can only see what would be on the TV, it looks weird.
Probably just me. Nobody else get confused by it? Probably why I try and avoid mirrors too.
OneShotWook
Sounds very much like a depth perception issue caused by sight problems.I suffer similarly and wear contacts now.I hope i’m wrong Yd but eye tests don’t take long these days.
Good luck.
yd
No, it’s not an eye problem. It’s just a weird brain issue when you’re only seeing half the picture (the bit on the TV and not the person standing in front of the TV).
Made worse in those Playroom videos by seeing things appear from the real tablet (in front of the TV where you can’t see it) rather than the image of the tablet on the TV.
I really do also get confused by mirrors. Shaving causes lots of fun. Even though mirrors don’t work the same as cameras.
I’m just odd. No problem thinking of and dealing with things in 3 dimensions (or possibly more, but it’s never come up) until you put people into the equation. Then my brain goes wrong.
Adam Guest
The camera should be in every box, this looks like classic Christmas morning tomfooley.
yd
That would drastically reduce the massive price advantage Sony have over MS though.
But then there’d be more reason for developers to actually take advantage of the thing if everyone had it.
Although really, what are they going to do with it that would be fun for more than 10 minutes?
boeboe
Add a bit of booze into the mix and a couple of old people…
TSBonyman
They could have also offered the mega bundle with different games but i guess the price was more important.
I wonder how many mega bundles were made available as it seems to have been a popular choice.
Ah, xmas morning, memories of my dear old mum playing that Kung Fu game which came with the PS2 Eyetoy.. such fun :)
Kennykazey
I’ll make sure to get a camera early next year, that looks brilliant. At least it’s a good way to entertain non-gamers and alike.
gaffers101
I spent some time on The Playroom at Eurogamer it’s really good, family fun.
cam the man
Def good family fun. When my 9yr old niece saw a vid of Playroom she begged me to get a camera.
boeboe
haha that was great!!
ron_mcphatty
Fantastic! You can’t buy publicity like that! Actually you probably can, whatever, it was still very impressive.
TSBonyman
That was a fun clip and good PR for Sony but i think i’ve seen everything that’s on offer with Playroom at this point – unless they’ve held something back – but i think Pong at least will get a regular play.
Vallon
Playroom is really just a freebie tech demo, sure its just a gimmick but shows some of what will be possible with the camera and lots of potential gaming opportunities :)
Good PR for Sony