I will forever be jealous of the geniuses who can come up with such cool inventions. Remember the iTunes app Fruit Ninja where you can slice open fruit with one swipe of a finger? A group of students in Germany created a life-sized version of the game, Fruit Ninja in the CAVE, where you can play Fruit Ninja in a little white room and use your hands as swords by means of virtual reality. How cool is that?

There is 3-D motion tracking in action, a 5.1 sound system, Buttkickers placed on the floor and feedback through a Wiimote. The four boys Thiemo, Alex, Matze and Moritz made the project in FH-Wedel’s Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE).

Here is what they have to say about the game:

“This game was made during the virtual reality workshop as a part of our media-informatics studies (FH Wedel Germany). It is preety much a 3D clone of the smartphone game Fruit Ninja. We used the preconfigured CAVE and its SDK. The CAVE consits of synced 4 PCs and 4 duo-beamers. All is rendered over OpenGL and Chromium. Because of the tracking data (4 camera-based infrared tracking) and shutter-glasses, the user has a 3D impression. The sword sits above the Wiimote, which is only used for a haptic feedback when hitting a fruit. It is also located over the tracking-system. For physics and collisions we used Bullet Physics.

To create a realistic impression we placed the sound with OpenSL over a 5.1 sound system. When you hit a bomb the floor begins to rumble (over 2 Buttkickers). There are 3 Gamemodes.
Combos are also possible and are displayed throw 1 (combo of 3) or more chilis
The game becomes more difficult, if you get more points.”

Check out the simulation below!

Instead of watching the fruit fly up on a small screen, there are huge fruits flying straight at your face! What do you think of this invention?

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