Gaming+&+Entertaiment+expo+2009

prsented by Dean casey

GO3 Expo was a gaming and entertainment Expo and is open from Friday 2nd to the 4th of October it was being held at the Perth Convention Centre and is full of electronic and gaming exhibititors.

An exibition from TAFE that I liked was based on motion capture, this is done by a computer capturing your body movements and the image was then transfered on to the screen for the person to view.

Another contributor was Stanbridges Hobby Shop which was an exibition of remote controlled slot cars, there was a slot car track on display able to run four cars at once on a single track. This enabled the cars to move around the race track and the detail was amazing as the cars did appear to be very realistic with working headlights.

There were four 4wd's on view that had been modfied with top end stereo systems, subwoofers and speakers, Neon coloured lights had been fitted to the underside and around the vehicles as well as insde the boots of the 4wdrives. One of the the 4WD's on show had been custom painted and was completely air brushed with the batman theme and had nine LCD screens inset into the vehicle and it was showing the Spiderman Movie on these screens which were positioned at diffrent angles inside and outside with an elaborate sound system with big subwoofers and suround sound speakers. It also had a wii consle that you could use.

One of the coolist exhibits at the Expo was The Paper Show. This was a display of new technology allowing people attending meetings to share there thoughts,diagrams or anything that can be written or drawn on paper to be shared and displayed on an electronic white board or over the internet.You are able to change colour and the thicknes of the lines drawn. You write on the interactive paper with the special pen and this transmits data to a usb dongle attached to a computer and this is then interpreted by the software.

One of the other gadgets that caught my attention was the Automatic Vaccum Robot, this little robot automatically vaccumes the house and when it needs recharging it goes back to the docking station by itself. It was cool to see this robot in action, while I was watching it tried to start cleaning the entire floor of the expo.

Another good looking gadget was the Viewsonic portable media player, the VPD500 5inch, this little player performs many useful functions other than being just a portable media player. It is able to play videos, audio, display pictures in a range of formats, it is also able to record audio.

The best gaming moment for me was being given the opportunity to play the soon to be released Borderlands game in the 2k exhibition. This was a very fast single person shooter action game. It was set up to play the single player campaign.

There were also small stalls selling a range of Japanese Anime and Manga these are cartoons made in Japan. There was a range of keychains, wallets, necklaces dispaying characters from diffrent types of anime and manga brands. There were also card stalls where you could buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Star Wars as well as Dungeons and Dragons card games.

A large number of people attending the Expo took the oppotunity to dress as a character from Star Wars or from an Anime Series which made the Expo very entertaining.

I reccomend you go and see this fantastic expo of the latest technology and new gdgets which are going to be released this year and next year.

I found this expo by searching in google with the option only for australia upcoming confrences for perth that gave me a list of available confrences that are coming to perth within next coming of months.