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May 27, 2014

Bike input device

The best input device is......

A bike.


[Porco Grande,


I am very proud to present level 3 of "PORCO GRANDE VR" after one and half year of work I have The VR experience I dreamed of.

Everybody who thinks it's a little bit high impact..... this is level 3 only for the initiated. Level 1 an 2 are a lot more relaxed.
The Game has had a few critics of being trippy or drugs induced. The only reason people think that is because archetype entity's have non archetype colours. If you can look past that then it's just a happy friendly VR game.
In this level I introduce The Church of VR and PORCO will make the Ten commandments soon


Thanks to you for your publicity!


Greetings Johan Pruys.










Kickstarter online.


Kickstarter online.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/79 ... o-grandenl

Right now I am working on my Oculus DK 2 fitness VR game. The name of the game is "porco Grande".

http://www.porcogrande.nl

http://www.porcogrande.nl/porcogrande.nl/

Worked a little bit to hard but I think this could be awesome in VR!
http://vrfocus.com/archives/3539/vr-fit ... s-fat-pig/

NEW VIDEO'S! PORCO IS READY FOR TAKEOFF!!

EJOY the (bubble gumm) music, I think thats my strongest part.

















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ne_7G7eRRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swb7BxnIfng

http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?t=122442

Porco Grande

“Porco Grande” is a game about a pig which is to fat. Every day he visits his girlfriend “Porco Cinne”. One day he finds out that he is too fat, to slow and to heavy for his car “Porc-Mobile” to fly.

“Porco Gande” still wants to visit his girlfriend “Porco Cinne” so he removes his engine from his car and he will pedal to “Porco Cinne”. When he arrives in time he will get a medal (bronze, silver, gold) a calorie score and a kiss from “Porco Cinne”.

On his way from his house to “Porco Cinne’’ he will meet several bully’s :

“Goaty, Crock, Cat, Goose”.

These bully’s he has to shoot of the road otherwise he will lose seconds.

FOODS

During his path to “Porco Cinne” he has to collect foods.

1. Good foods will make him faster and lighter.

2. Bad foods will make him slower and more heavy.


On the road are several check-points which give him extra time.

With enough pedaling/steering/flying and time left he will reach “Porco Cinne” and get his reward.

Game
The game “Porco Grande” is a happy fun game which plays inside a virtual world. The virtual world is realized with the “Oculus rift” and the “Cryengine”. The game is played on an exercise bike which is connected to a computer. So, in order to play, you sit on an exercise bike with a “Oculus rift” headset strapped on. During the game, you (the player) cycles, steers and look around. With the exercise bike controls and the “Oculus rift” you can shoot at the bully’s. The main experience of the game is:

1. To have a fun time inside a virtual world.
2. To have some exercise.
3. Give food advice.
4. To play a game.

Type of Game
The game can be played by people from 8 to 80. The game is a racing/vehicle game. That means that some virtual reality problems, like motion sickness have disappeared. E.G. cockpit games make you less easily sick.

The game “Porco Grande” is a game which helps subconsciously with several problems.
Problems like:

1. Lack of exercise.
2. Bad food habits.
3. Game addiction.

To play the game you have to bike and look around, grab good (virtual) foods and will be exhausted after a couple of levels so game addiction is automaticity solved.

Setup

The initial setup of “porco Grande” is an exercise bike, a “Oculus rift”, a powerful P.C. and the “Porco Grande” Software.
The future setup would be just a bike with glasses. The bike and glasses connect via WIFI to the internet. The game is rendered inside a cloud gaming service like “Steam” or “Gaikai” and handshakes with the player’s devices/virtual world. The game keeps track of high-scores every week and gives prices to subscripted users. Users who reach the TOP 10 will be given prices.

The game is aimed for people who cannot go outside or have health/mental problems and find relief in fun and exercise.

Greetings: “The Porco team”

I tryed it and it works!

    16 replies

    Up and Coming
    August 15, 2014
    "johanpruys" wrote:
    I have already created a very good 1st level soloution.

    just need some support :0)

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/795981279/porco-grandenl


    +1
    This is neat, keep going.
    Participant
    August 17, 2014
    I'm learning to use arduino and Unity right now so I can do the same type of thing. I just got a Kinetic bike trainer. So.fun. Why can't I do this for work?
    October 7, 2014
    I worked on motion simulators for about 5 years, at one point we were using rotary encoders and magnetic particle brakes for input and haptics for the pedals. You can get absolute or incremental types depending on what you want to do.
    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    October 13, 2014
    I just started looking into bike simulation today.
    I've got an exercise bike with the same simple encoding (short a contact once per pedal revolution).
    I didn't feel like using my Raspberry Pi's GPIO or getting an arduino, so I ordered an IPAC-VE from Ultimarc. This is a usb device made for arcade cabinets, it gives 32 digital input pins and emulates a keyboard so no software or drivers are required to use it in a game (just regular keyboard code).
    They have it for $37us with free shipping to many countries.

    I was actually going to buy an IPAC2 (same thing, same features, but with eeprom for settings and a ps2 port, costs more) for an arcade cabinet I'm planning on making, but that won't happen just yet so I can play around with it and an exercise bike. :)

    Sadly the IPAC-VE's free shipping has no tracking number and is up to 3 weeks to deliver.
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    April 21, 2015
    Porco Grande,


    I am very proud to present level 3 of "PORCO GRANDE VR" after one and half year of work I have The VR experience I dreamed of.

    Everybody who thinks it's a little bit high impact..... this is level 3 only for the initiated. Level 1 an 2 are a lot more relaxed.
    The Game has had a few critics of being trippy or drugs induced. The only reason people think that is because archetype entity's have non archetype colours. If you can look past that then it's just a happy friendly VR game.
    In this level I introduce The Church of VR and PORCO will make the Ten commandments soon


    Thanks to you for your publicity!


    Greetings Johan Pruys.