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thenewgreen  ·  4685 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator
I imagine the most expensive components are the video tent and the omnidirectional treadmill. -Absolutely but if you had them built for you, they would easily cost $100k+. Easily, imo.




scarp  ·  4685 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Even the video tent is just a handful of networked projectors and what looks like a camping tent -- that can't cost much more than a few thousand dollars. I don't really have any real metric for judging the cost of the treadmill, though. But still -- this looks like a rather vanilla web show, so I doubt that they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on hobby projects.
thenewgreen  ·  4685 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I think the bulk of the costs would come from the custom built multi-directional treadmill. But the producers of this segment didn't have to pay for squat. There were plenty of free plugs for all involved. I'd be surprised if they paid (out of pocket) for much of the novelty equipment in the shoot.