{"id":80437,"date":"2015-08-24T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80437"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:57:25","slug":"seriousy-cool-chatroulette-transformed-into-a-real-life-first-person-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/80437-seriousy-cool-chatroulette-transformed-into-a-real-life-first-person-shooter","title":{"rendered":"Seriously cool: Chatroulette transformed into a real life first-person shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we hotly anticipate the day the zombie scourge finally engulfs the planet in a blanket of flesh eating anarchy, we fondly enjoy whatever scrumptious zombie material we can get our hands on \u2013 perhaps most enjoyable of all are the videogames.<\/p>\n<p>Videogames give us a taste of the zombie apocalypse without the concern of zombies inevitably tasting us. That said, they lack something other media forms have nailed down, a real life tone.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you could combine videogames with live action zombie slaying?<\/p>\n<p>Popular video production YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RealmPictures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Realm Pictures<\/a> has produced, quite possibly, the first real life first-person shooter videogame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chatroulette-FPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80445\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Chatroulette-FPS.jpg\" alt=\"Chatroulette-FPS\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Realm Pictures used the power of Chatroulette \u2013 is something we never thought we\u2019d say \u2013 to allow those who connect to them to play a live action, interactive zombie FPS.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the whole endeavour work, they used a bike helmet with a GoPro camera attached to capture the footage necessary and a <a href=\"http:\/\/teradek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teradek Cube transmitter box<\/a> to transcode and transmit that footage directly to a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>That footage was given a few post-processing visual effects via the laptop, giving it a FPS-like UI and even a few QTE commands, and then sent to the user on the other side of Chatroulette.<\/p>\n<p>As the person chatting to Realm Pictures gave commands, the \u201ccharacter\u201d within this interactive zombie world would respond in kind \u2013 he of course added a little flair and made sure to keep his actions within the confines of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps most important was the fact that everyone involved, from character to zombies, all played their part really rather well.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a lot of production value and you get the coolest video project we\u2019ve seen in a good long while.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p747PrxmZJ4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To see how they did the whole thing, Realm Pictures invites you to watch the \u2018Behind the Scenes\u2019 \/ Making of video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpfXmcL7Ox0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the coolest zombie videogame ever? Quite possibly.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the best thing to happen to Chatroulette? Freaking yes! And by a long way.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/80371-heroes-of-the-storms-duck-hunt-easter-egg.html\">Heroes of the Storm\u2019s Duck Hunt easter egg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80183-half-life-2-recreated-in-unreal-engine-4.html\">Half-Life 2 recreated in Unreal Engine 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80111-forza-6s-extreme-detail-to-come-at-a-price-a-44-gb-install-size.html\">Forza 6\u2019s extreme detail to come at a price, a 44 GB install size<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the zombie apocalypse just get here already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15497,4984,2202,14312,1969,14310,15499,15501,183,1321],"class_list":["post-80437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chatroulette","tag-first-person-shooter","tag-fps","tag-live-action","tag-news-2","tag-real-life","tag-realm-pictures","tag-teradek-cube","tag-video","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}