• Admiral Patrick
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    9 months ago

    Sensor bar for the bridge’s Wii. The audience only sees the lights because cameras can pick up infrared. Data finds them amusing, and Geordi just filters them out; the rest of the crew can’t see them.

      • Admiral Patrick
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        149 months ago

        Shot in the dark answer: probably not very (which frustrates him) so he cheats. Spock is annoyed because he wanted to play tennis.

        • IninewCrow
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          79 months ago

          Scotty in engineering messing with the gravity controls every time Kirk goes for a night of bowling.

      • TWeaK
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        129 months ago

        How good do you think Kirk is at Wii Sports Bowling?

        Probably not very, seeing as he gets a heart attack after walking from one end of the table to the other.

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        9 months ago

        Lol, can’t say I have. But I did eventually learn that the sensor bars are just dumb IR lights that the remotes track rather than something more complex, so I can see how it would work.

        • @[email protected]
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          109 months ago

          This reminds me of Duck Hunt. Basically you’re not shooting anything from the “gun”. Instead, for a brief moment, the screen turns black and the ducks turn into white blocks. The gun will then register if you’re pointing it at a white block or not and register it as a hit. This was specifically attuned to the refresh rates of CRTs, and consequently will not work with newer LED/LCD TVs.

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            59 months ago

            That’s reminds me of the EDTracker, a little head tracking solution created for Elite Dangerous, made out of an Arduino and a sensor board that’s basically like a Wiimote (the accelerometers and magnometer, not the IR stuff). It was much cheaper than TrackIR or any commercial head tracking solution.

            Lol their main domain has been bought by a dodgy prostitute spam site now… you don’t want to visit the .org.uk site. But the instructions are still on hobby components forums.

            It’s a shame there haven’t been more ghetto head tracking implementations. It’s a damn sight more affordable than VR, and doesn’t require loads of space to use.

  • @[email protected]
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    329 months ago

    Those are light nodes for off hours dance parties. So, of course they’re more important than the view finder doohicky.

  • @[email protected]
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    319 months ago

    They’re in the Phoenix cockpit, too.

    They’re waymarkers. They tell you at a glance if the ship is going forward, reversing, or turning - and at what speed. However, their on-screen use throughout Trek history has been either inconsistent or completely overlooked by the FX department.

  • guyrocket
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    269 months ago

    Those are boopers.

    Aka monitor monitors.

    They boop when your monitors are happy.

  • @[email protected]
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    189 months ago

    I always assumed that was just the on-light for the soundbar, because the viewscreen’s inbuilt speakers are dogshit.

  • @robdor
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    69 months ago

    Oh that’s just Hal. Ask him to open the pod bay doors. He thinks it’s hilarious.

  • @[email protected]
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    69 months ago

    I just love how I read every comment with complete seriousness just to realize all you guys are just joking.

    For a second, reading that stuff is being a sensor bar for the Wii, I tried to imagine that on the ship just to realize what I read, but it was already too late.

    💛