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Half-Life 2 is finally on store shelves (and online via Steam) and the public response to the game has been overwhelming.

Now we just need someone to turn it into a product.Six years of waiting has finally come to an end. Still, when I took off that display, I was more convinced than ever that we're finally on the technological cusp of a commercially viable virtual-reality environment for home use. While the experience of being inside Valve's first-person shooter was definitely unique, I'm not sure it would be worth that initial asking price, or even the $800 price Sony is asking for a similar, lower-resolution Personal 3D Viewer coming in March (that unit lacks crucial head-tracking capabilities, though). Considering that similar military training setups cost roughly $20,000 just a few years ago, though, that price will likely start coming down as production starts scaling up. Forth Dimension estimates the initial cost for such a product would likely be $1,500 to $2,000, necessarily limiting the market to extremely hardcore gamers at first.

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The company is currently talking with a number of 'high-end peripheral companies' about putting all the parts together into a consumer PC gaming peripheral, which could be on store shelves 'in about a year' after a deal gets signed. 'All the bits we've got here you can get today,' Forth Dimension Sales VP Robert Hoffman said. The folks from Forth Dimension were quick to point out that they threw together thisВ rudimentaryВ demo in about three weeks, completely with commercially available, off-the shelf parts, including a totally standard version of Half-Life 2.

When an enemy started firing at me, I was able to glance over to where the shots had come from, naturally move my gun in that direction, and fire without having to worry about fiddling with any thumb sticks. The image was sharp and headache-free in a way that watching a 3D image on a screen never seems to be, and, when combined with surprisingly tight head tracking, made me almost forget I was actually in a drafty hotel suite. The 3D image projected in front of me created an all-encompassing world with real depth and fidelity, making me feel like I was actually inside the world of Half-Life 2. Still, the visual experience was like nothing I'd experienced before. By putting one of these HD displays a few inches in front of each eye, you can create an all-encompassing 3D effect that covers a roughly 100 degree field of vision in front of you (Forth Dimension also makes wider displays that can extend that vision field even further).

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The demonstration was put on by Forth Dimension Displays, a component maker that has managed to squeeze a functional, commercially viable 1080p monitor into a display area that measures a little less than an inch across diagonally (the company has also recently prototyped a similarly sized screen at QXGA resolutions of 2048x1536-the same pixel count as the new iPad squeezed onto a fraction of the size). At least that's the impression I walked away with after a state-of-the-art HMD slipped me into the world of Half-Life 2 at a Game Developers Conference demo last week. Now, we may be finally be reaching the point where the display technology is finally catching up to our collective virtual reality dreams. But this dream has been largely dead in the water since the mid-'90s, when everyone from Nintendo and Sega to Atari was prototyping or releasing ill-thought-out Virtual Reality headsets, even though the technology of the time was far from capable of fulfilling the VR promise. For decades now, the futuristic dream interface for video games has been some sort of head-mounted display (HMD) that removes the world around you and projects an all-encompassing, head-tracked 3D environment across your entire field of vision.