Super Mario Bros. goes virtual reality

The Mega Man frozen jump animation was kickass. I wish he would have fought Metalman though.

Yea... that was great. Awsomeness in pure form. There's nothing more to say.

This looks too much like prerecorded footage to me, and while it may look neat for the crowd, standing in front of a projector like that is no fun.

Also, do you really need to *exactly* copy stories from DSFanboy.com? This doesn't seem particularly relevant to EITHER site.

That has really got to be the coolest version of Mario, Megaman, Punchout, duck hunt, pong and the rest I've ever seen.

Thanks much for the video!

nifty, theres some geek cred x100 for them.

i would have assumed it was pre-recorded except for when he collecting all those coins it would take alot of practice to place your hands in the right spots every time.

to #4 Jackson Pritt:
all these blogs are connected, i wouldn't be surprised if this story showed up on joystiq later either. I guess they put all related stories on each assuming you only read one. and while it would make the most sense on joystiq as just general gamer interest, they are still all NES games in the video, and with a little stab at the wii, and with the wii having the virtual console, it does kinda apply.

Hehe, yeah Nintendo had it planned all along...

Actually, I'm pretty sure this is controled through a combination of Carnegie Mellon's virtual reality platform panda3d (http://panda3d.org) and they Shadow tracking interactive technology Playmotion (http://playmotion.com/). Carnegie Mellon has done a number of interactive virtual worlds like this in the past. While there was a 'performance' in the video, this was definitely driven by a real time technology, and not canned video. Practice makes perfect!