Just doing some testing with BF3 running in stereoscopic 3D on my HMZ-T1 with this setup and it's working pretty well! After a bit of tweaking with the iPhone sensitivity and mapping all the buttons on the gun I have to say the immersion is amazing. I have strapped my iPhone to the top of the gun and am using an app called air mouse to emulate the mouse using the iPhones gyro and accelerometer. It also has an optical sensor and a battery powered sensor bar like a wiimote. It has 7 buttons in total, two analog sticks, a 4 way d-pad and a trigger on both the firing trigger and the pump action reload. I managed to find an xbox 360 version of the topshot elite gun controller on ebay and it works perfectly with the microsoft xbox controller dongle for the PC. Just an update for anyone who is interested. What do people think? Has anyone here used an iPhone's gyroscopic capability for anything like this? ![]() I have considered getting a wii gun accessory along with a motion plus controller but I can't really see any advantage over the iPhone as they both use the same tech, the iPhone even has a magnetometer for compass direction which I wonder if could be used somehow. ![]() I'm thinking the phone could be mounted on the side of gun grip so I could use my left thumb to toggle this on & off. The gyro mouse is only active when a button is held on the iPhone screen so you can simply let go and re-center to counter drift. I tried using it with BF3 and after tweaking the mouse sensitivity a bit it seemed to work pretty well. I tried it out quickly using an app called Mobile Mouse Pro which gives an option to use the iPhone's accelerometer & gyro to emulate a mouse on your PC. So I'm currently waiting for my HMZ-T1 to arrive and have been thinking about using an iPhone 4S mounted to a gun controller to provide 1:1 motion control for fps games. I have been reading the VR section of the forums for a while and am blown away with the ideas and talent by some people.
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