Good interview, I hope he can pull it all off. Together with Oculus Rift support and that finger tracking device he's talking about, this could be amazing.
Roberts: I don’t know. There was that device where you could that can track your finger motions really accurately. I think it’s not out just yet, but they were going to prototype it. It’s going to go in front of your monitor, and the idea is that you can do this in front and it’s super pixel-accurate. So not like Kinect, which is completely inaccurate. If we get that, that would be another thing to support.
It’s not really working yet, but you can see here, this HUD [motions toward cockpit view in Star Citizen], if I look around it’s in proper 3D. It floats in front of your eyes in stereoscopic. That’s kind of like the Iron Man-style HUD tagging. The HUD doesn’t function properly yet, but what happens is that it’ll tag stuff like you see in Iron Man. It’s going to be set up in that style. I can have my weapons display here, and then sweep it onto my HUD, like a Minority Report type of thing. In this version you’ll be doing it like this, which isn’t as cool. If they have that finger-thing I was talking about… If Kinect was half decent I would support that. But the idea would be, you’d still fly with a joystick, but you should be able to like that and you’d see… My hand comes off the joystick and goes like that. The idea is, everything I do in the cockpit, like if I switch something on…
RPS: …you’ll see the corresponding movement from the pilot.
Roberts: Yeah. I’m switching weapons here and hitting the buttons.
Please, pull it off.
Ok Zarx, I can't resist any longer I backed it now.
I do share his concerns about Windows 8 though, what it might do to gaming. Yes pc gaming is really healthy now, but with Win8 and new consoles coming the focus might be away from pc again in 2 years.
