Paintball gaming system w/ GPS anyone?
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Topic: Paintball gaming system w/ GPS anyone?
Posted By: thezephyr
Subject: Paintball gaming system w/ GPS anyone?
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 12:49am
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I had a topic, apparently in the wrong forum, so I'm going to continue it here. The original post was at: http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=171097&KW=thezephyr - http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=171 097&KW=thezephyr Since then, I've put some pictures of the prototypes up online at http://www.zephyreye.com/gallery2.htm - http://www.zephyreye.com/gallery2.htm . I'm still chasing a couple of bugs down, so they don't show any gaming, but the series of pictures should help you see how the game is setup. If you don't see a peice of setup you were expecting (e.g. field borders, etc.), it's probably because I just haven't gotten that far yet. I'm hoping to be able to show some simple gameplay by the end of next week, along with some video if I can get it to look decent with my digital camera. Let me know what you guys think. Is it worth pursuing? - Brad |
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Posted By: thejudge
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 1:13am
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Get a Garmin Rhino. It has GPS and locates your teammates callin to you when you look at the screen. ------------- Stay low, run fast, and hope that paintball doesn't hit your... http://www.deltasquad.info/"> 
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Posted By: thezephyr
Date Posted: 12 November 2007 at 3:03am
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Gaming is the primary purpose of this "paintball gaming system". If it didn't do the gaming part, I wouldn't be wasting my time - I would just use a Garmin. The ability to set up gaming styles and extremely different methods of scoring is the concept I am trying to get across. While it can be used as you said, like a simple player locator, that's really nothing new and nothing special. Please see http://www.zephyreye.com/gameplay.htm - http://www.zephyreye.com/gameplay.htm to get a little better perspective on the main purpose of this device. - Brad |
Posted By: big boom
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 6:57pm
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I would be more interested in a handheld unit about the size of the garmin ------------- I do all my own stunts, most of the time |
Posted By: thezephyr
Date Posted: 15 November 2007 at 3:12pm
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The size of the ZephyrEye unit will be the same size or smaller than a Garmin Rino. - Brad |
Posted By: GhilleMan
Date Posted: 16 November 2007 at 11:54am
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If I want to play halo I'll buy an xbox, why do you need a gps test messanger to send cover and move up messages, as far a team locater, that defiantly could be useful for night scenario games. For communications, throat mike and ear piece seem a lot more useful to me. ------------- Smart Parts, Stupid People... Go figure Shoot To Thrill on stockclass, mcarter, and the dreadful pbn Carter Mini Comp, Carter Tricar, PPS Blazer |
Posted By: thezephyr
Date Posted: 17 November 2007 at 1:38pm
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You're not alone in that opinion, but from what I've seen, you're not in the majority. A lot of paintball players, and a lot of video game players, like the idea of being able to add video game style gameplay to paintball. This will get a lot of people off their couches and out onto the field, which is good for them and for the sport. And you're right, a lot of scenario players are very interested in being able to locate team members and/or squads. Later down the road, there will be lap-top software that will allow a scenario commander to move his squads around tactically. The tactical messaging is just an extra feature that since there's a transmitter on the device, I decided to use it to send tactical messages around as well. The GPS hardware in each device shows each player their location, and helps them locate and accomplish tactical objectives. It keeps score, sets up boundaries, makes sure everyone starts from starting locations, etc. These new styles of gameplay probably shouldn't be directly compared to what you're used to playing. - Brad |