This is a little off-topic, but seeing as how I cannot post a new thread
(I are sad) I'll post it here;
I went and did a little research, on the company Nintendo bought into(The company making the gyro sensors for thier controllers) *Press release*--->
http://www.gyration.com/intl/uk/pr-nintendo_uk.htm and I found some interesting things ABOUT the company, and some interesting itd-bits I havn't seen discused. NOW, i am not proclaiming that I found the revolutions secret, but I have always believed that whatever this "secret" is, it is already out in the open, and in plain sight. Nintendo has eluded to as much. So here goes.
This is what I dug up;
Nintendo bought an undisclosed amount of the company, this much is known. But what may NOT be known is that this company has worked with Nintendo before;
"VPL started up to build a "virtual-reality" system that allows a user wearing a special helmet with displays for each eye to "walk through" a three-dimensional space. Navigation is controlled by head movement and by a special glove. The. company needed a program for displaying a 3-D space, so it wrote Swivel 3D and licensed it to Paracomp. In the short term, the market for Swivel 3D is substantially larger than for any virtual-reality product. VPL also designed a simplified glove for Nintendo games."
" Gyration. Gyration started up to make a 3-D pointing device-in essence, a 3-D mouse (perhaps it might be termed a "bat"). The founder, a successful entrepreneur, hired a graduate fresh out of Stanford who invented a revolutionary gyroscope. Their patented invention reduces both the cost and size of gyros by large factors while increasing their accuracy and stability. The company has both the need and the opportunity to become a significant gyro manufacturer because it has created a breakthrough component. As an enabling technology, Gyration's invention could replace many existing gyros, and it could form the basis for fundamental new products such as television remote controllers, 3-D pointers, and controllers for industrial manipulators, mobile robots, and vehicle navigation units."
http://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/High_Tech_Ventures/00000065.htm
Interesting? There's more, from the companys own website;
"GyroPoint Technology
The application of inertial sensors in a product which senses angular human motion in order to control a graphic or cursor on a display is patented by Gyration and trademarked as GyroPoint Technology. Key Gyration product categories include game controllers, "in air" mice, living room remote controls, presentation controllers,
virtual reality and other devices. These products sell as home set top boxes, multimedia PC's and game consoles, which are currently seeing explosive growth fueled by cheap processors, high performance graphics, and distributed broadband information and entertainment."
http://www.gyration.com/intl/uk/technology_uk.htm
I gave that little thought, untill I read "virtual reality and other devices." So I was interested in what VR devices the company has out on the market seeing as how they called them "products". So I did a search, and I found NOTHING the company has created that has anything to do with VR;
http://www.euro-tech.co.uk/brandnew.php?brand=Gyration
http://www.earthcommerce.com/cgi-win/Dream74.exe/~mf201015
http://www.pcuniverse.com/results.asp?mfgid=97&m_id=37
These are all of the company's products. There are a ton of other websites, listing Gyrations products for sale, and in not ONE of these did I find anything relating to a Vr headset, or anything related to VR.
Just something to think about.
