An apparatus, system, and a method for providing more realistic shooting input
for shooting video games on computers or similar devices is provided. The apparatus
may be comprised of a mock shooting device, such as a gun, having a lighting device
containing a plurality of light sources. The apparatus may also include a screen
device for displaying visual target objects of a video shooting game, at which
a game player can shoot at with the mock shooting device, a video camera that captures
video images of the mock shooting device, and a computing device that computes
the hit position of the mock shooting device on the screen device based on the
captured video images. The determined hit position can then be fed to the video
shooting game software run by the computing device which can determine if a visual
target object is actually hit or not, and reacts accordingly. The system and method
can be extended to a plurality of game players using mock shooting devices with
different colored lighting devices so that a plurality of hit positions for different
colors may be determined.