We’re all familiar with the photo we take with our cell phone every day. But we take it on location as well, and the photos we take with our camera are the ones we remember. This is the kind of photo that can help you remember where you were or who you were with that night.
The camera might be good to remember where you were, but the memories it produces are much more profound. In our research it turned out that just looking at our photos was enough to link us to certain memories, and the photos they link us to are the ones that can be used to reconstruct our past selves on the spot. Now in the case of our new zombie horror game, Pulse, that’s pretty cool.
Pulse is a photo-based virtual reality (VR) game. It’s essentially a social VR experience, where you are a passenger in a car with a passenger in the back, who is driving a car that’s driving itself. And because this game is so immersive, it’s a great way to explore the idea of being completely in the moment with the people you care about. As such, it’s a perfect tool to help people remember their lives.
As a game developer, I’m always talking about the importance of the player in a game, whether its story or cut scenes, and I think Pulse gives a great example of what the player is capable of in this sense. You get to control a car and go out of the window, and your passenger is in the back seat.
I love this idea because it allows me to see you through their eyes. For example, if I want to see your reaction on the car’s dashboard as you get into it, I can. Im always trying to figure out how the player should control the car, but this way, I can see how you would react to it. A nice example of this would be when you see me driving on the highway.
While driving, it’s very cool how the player can see your reaction on the car’s dashboard. If you want to go slow and take photos of the street, that’s also a great way of showing your passenger. If you want to go fast and snap photos of the city, that’s not so great, but it’s still a cool way of showing them what you see in your peripheral vision.
Another cool use of pulse photography is when you and your passenger are in the car, but you are not able to see the car’s dashboard. You can see your passenger through the windshield. You can also see the sky through the windshield. This allows you to see the sky, the road, the sun, the earth, as well as the car.
You can see into your car, too. I’m sure if you look straight up through the windshield, you can see the side of the car, which is awesome.
I can’t wait for people to try out this feature. Once you start shooting pulse pictures at a speed that your camera’s shutter speed can’t capture an image, it becomes a game of “what’s the fastest you can get a shutter speed that is smaller than your camera’s resolution?” The shorter the shutter speed, the better the shot.
With the new camera technology, it’s now possible to shoot images of the car with a camera that only has a resolution on the order of a grainy 35mm picture, and then transfer the image to an image processing device that can capture that same pixel resolution. This means that once you have your image processed, you can then use that image to see what your car looks like from a different angle.