A PS3 aquarium in your room for under $2 |
Fish and aquariums rock. Fish create a serene environment with the sound of the water bubbling and swimming around. If you want to lower your stress level, the sound of water can really help.
I’d buy a gigantic aquarium for our home and office if not for one thing: the work required to clean, feed and maintain the beautiful tanks and pets. This has given me a soft spot for these virtual aquarium screensavers, since no work is required to maintain them. This afternoon I was delighted to see the screen pictured above and wasted no time clicking the Buy Now button for Aquatopia in the Playstation Store.
Check that out. Beautiful picture, especially at 1080p. Now look at it from a little further back.
Aquatopia requires the PS Eye camera that comes with Eye of Judgment. If you move your body or simply your hand in front of the PS Eye camera, the fish react to the movement.
I’m curious if I left Aquatopia running if I could also do the fold@Home project. If that’s not an option, Sony, please tweak the title so it can do both. If I could do that I’d leave Aquatopia running more. Good stuff. The PS3 just keeps getting better and better.
Update 3:00pm PST: After posting I learned that until November 29, the Playstation store is running a special time sensitive deal:
Calling All Cars, fl0w, Pixel Junk Racers and Everyday Shooter are reduced to $4.99 each until November 29th.
Might want to pick these up too when you buy Aquatopia. Only title I haven’t tried is Calling All Cars, but I’ll likely be buying that one before November 29. fl0w is probably the weakest one of the others. The guitar sounds in Everyday Shooter are wild.
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Tetris Splash on the Xbox Live Arcade has a similar function. You play the game to unlock different fish and other stuff.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg — November 20, 2007 @ 3:55 pm PST
Already have Tetris Splash, and glad you brought it up Nathan, but it’s got nothing on Aquatopia. These fish look and act almost real. You can put your hand in front of the camera and emulate feeding them. Neat stuff. Very tranquil.
Comment by TDavid — November 20, 2007 @ 4:01 pm PST
That sounds really cool. I’m not that impressed with Tetris Splash, and probably wouldn’t have paid for it if I didn’t have a reviewer code. Very rarely, I wish I had a PS3, and this sounds like one of those times. Motorstorm would probably be another temptation.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg — November 20, 2007 @ 7:09 pm PST
These sorts of non games are definetly really interesting. I think that the prospect of Aquatopia is indeed an appealing one. Just recently I bought a HD monitor and it looks fantastic(yet to get any 1080p stuff on it, except for photos). So this would be a nice showpiece. I like how they play on the idea that these HDTVs are the size of an aquarium like what you’d see in a restraunt.
Comment by Daniel Primed — November 24, 2007 @ 4:47 am PST