Aug 7 2009Why Not?: Playing Half-Life With A Real Gun
This is a video showing how, with a piece of sheetrock, a handful of accelerometers and a digital projector, you can play Half-Life by firing at the projected screen with a real gun. The first two minutes of the video explains how the system works, so if you don't care you can shoot(!) straight to 1:55 to check out the game play. Which, I should warn you, won't work with a regular LCD television. Or will it?!
UPDATE: It won't. And, uh-oh, looks like the Geek Squad is calling the cops.
Thanks to Alexandra, who actually knows the guys who made this and should introduce me so that I can shoot guns with them. pew pew!
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Reader Comments
1. jaja - August 7, 2009 5:11 PM
first
2. naas - August 7, 2009 5:12 PM
@1 why don't you do stand up in front of that screen over there
3. Cameron - August 7, 2009 5:13 PM
OMG! They didn't say anything about the bullets being able to penetrate the wall! I think I just killed my grandpa!
4. Cameron - August 7, 2009 5:18 PM
Whew, false alarm. Grandpa is fine, but there's an ambulance at my next door neighbor's house. Surely bullets can't go through more than one wall, right? RIGHT?!
5. jaja - August 7, 2009 5:18 PM
I'd love to naas :)
So give me the coordinates of its exact location NAO !
6. jaja - August 7, 2009 5:19 PM
@4 - Do you live in a house made entirely of drywall ? XD
7. Pew³ - August 7, 2009 5:20 PM
uh whatever.
8. Cameron - August 7, 2009 5:26 PM
@5 jaja
Gladly. 9.909851,-150.206124, or just visit the link below.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-9.909851,-150.206124&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.978077,114.169922&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A
9. Ollie Williams - August 7, 2009 5:28 PM
I would fc*k the shit out of the chick, and the dudes are obviously gay.
Also, Ashton Kutcher defies God's will, escapes death.
10. Pew³ - August 7, 2009 5:33 PM
@9 OMG Ashton!!!!! Ashton?!?! You totally got me!
11. Freddy K - August 7, 2009 5:37 PM
Stupid work firewall.
I want to see some real pew pew action. :(
Also dino bacon.
12. BathCaptain - August 7, 2009 5:38 PM
LAME,
http://themostawesomepageintheuniverse.com/
13. darth matter - August 7, 2009 6:13 PM
Unisson : " but not with real guns " .....robots are so gonna win
14. Iris - August 7, 2009 6:53 PM
omg that looks effing fun! I wanna play!!
15. Joker - August 7, 2009 6:55 PM
Sweet can we now get a video of someone playing real mario, I want too see a middle age man going through the sewers, climbing to someones house to save the princess from the mean dragon.
You know now that you think about that, Mario does seem like a sick old man. Going around looking for a young princess, hmmm. Sounds like my kind of guy.
16. jaja - August 7, 2009 8:08 PM
@ Cameron - Wtf ? O_O
17. fetus_mcnuggets - August 7, 2009 9:10 PM
@ 15
a hairy toed italian plumber would totally flip my honkey
http://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/mario1.jpg
18. Daisy - August 7, 2009 9:31 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max asked Baja's dad, what can you ask a woman who has 2 black eyes. Baja's dad said - Nothing, she's already been told twice. Then they both laughed and went back to sending dead hooker pieces through the wood chipper.
19. Dinosaur Rex - August 7, 2009 10:45 PM
Looks slow and stupid, and the video shows how they failed at fun.
Nevertheless, i would try it with some of my enemies on the next room.
20. Silk - August 7, 2009 11:03 PM
That gun didn't look or sound so real, unless they meant real bb gun.
21. billabong021 - August 7, 2009 11:48 PM
I saw that clip once and I'm pretty sure they just bullsh!tted there way through that explanation.
WTF is an "accelorometer" ?! That's not even a real word for fnck sake!
22. Ian - August 8, 2009 12:16 AM
Well, I know what I really want in the next console generation, lol.
23. GoGo VicMorrow - August 8, 2009 6:24 AM
Anita makes me uncomfortable..
24. sadasdscx - August 8, 2009 8:42 AM
They will remain virgins.
25. Pat - August 8, 2009 10:30 AM
Even after 1:55 was pretty lame.
26. Steve - August 8, 2009 7:23 PM
@21 billabong021
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=accelerometer
dumbass
27. Paul? - August 8, 2009 11:22 PM
omfg that was awesome.
28. Jammix - August 9, 2009 7:17 AM
freaking awesome!
29. Alexandra - August 10, 2009 3:21 PM
Thanks for sharing, guys!
30. GeekoFan - August 11, 2009 4:23 AM
Must See!!
http://75684.onodot.com/