1st May 2019, 9:10 AM
Behold, a replacement for light guns made for modern displays. Instead of line scanning (super accurate, only works with older TVs that instantly display every pixel the moment they get it, meaning most CRTs except that last run that had post processing effects), or IR bars (sluggish, not at all accurate if you move around, or across different screen sizes, meaning the cursor on the screen is a must), it simply uses a high speed camera and modern processing to recognize a border around the image, and calculate where you are aiming based on that. It works incredibly accurately, even with modern display latency. I would love for this to be adopted as the new standard. In fact, there's good reason for console makers to go that way, as it minimizes the need for additional hardware to the light gun itself, and economies of scale make those digital cameras far cheaper than they used to be.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)