Hello again, it’s been a while. Since I last blogged, I have got married and been on honeymoon, and bought a Wii. I know, I’m weak, but it was for the little one, and it means my Xbox pads are no longer getting battered due to the frustrations of a 6 year old, just the frustrations of a 29 year old. More…
Good lord, two blogs in one week? Normally, I would have waited to put this up, but I just couldn’t. I have come across something that I just disagree with on many levels, and needed to share my anger!
For those who know me, I turned 29 recently. That means that I have been playing computer games for 25 years. Admittedly, I may not have been very good, but I was playing! People like to think that, with age, their skills grow. Their reflexes sharpen, and their tactics become more, errrr….. tactical. You also look back at the games that you played as a kid- BombJack, Donkey Kong, Wonderboy and so on and think how primitive they look compared to today’s ultra-realistic, photomapped 3D games. You usually had your joystick and one or two buttons. There was none of this 3D nonsense, and the Playstation was years away.
Hello all, and welcome to my first gaming blog.
For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Carl and I work in Plusnet’s Technical Support team. Oh, and I like games. I have played since I was 4, and that was, well, that was a long time ago 
Now I could wax lyrical about all of the games that I have played, or I can look forwards to the games that we will all be playing in the near future. And because listening (or reading) about games that other people have loved is probably not that interesting, I shall discuss games to come.
A company called Cam-Trax is developing software that allows almost any object to be used as an input device for a PC. Using a standard webcam, the software can be configured to recognise an object, track its movements and feed the input into a game or application. See it work in their demo video. They claim to be nearly ready to release a beta version but I suspect they’re being optimistic. Watching the bouncing ball demo reminded me of the EyeToy for PlayStation which was… well, not very good. But the way this tracks the contours of objects rather than human hands makes me think it will be much more reliable.
The stuff you can do with a Wii remote is pretty cool but how much cooler would it be to use anything as an input?
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