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Human Pac Man
erined writes ""Human Pac Man" is a project of the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. Players don back pack computers, VR gloves, and 'mixed reality' goggles which overlay virtual cookies--shown as floating spheres--on a first person view of the real world. Aided by a helper who can view the entire game board, players realize their pacman fantisies as they physically move around in a wide-area setting eating cookies and avoiding monsters."
Human Pac Man is cool but I want Human Doom, Human Thief and Human System Shock. Looking up at a ~6m tall cyberdemon would cause instant soiling of the gitch. No idea how things like rope arrows would work in Thief... and the monkeys in SS2, scary stuff...
That would be leet.
Trolling is a art,
Is this before or after the men in white coats take them away?
by gibson..
has a pair of glasses that show information on real world things floating above them, quite cool and maybe something we'll see someday as well(for everyday use).
though.. imagine huge virtual ads blocking your glasses, i just hope they run some system that would allow custom code to block them.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It would be kind of weird playing 3rd person in VR no?
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If Computer Games had any effect on childrens behaviour we would be running around a darkened room, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Oh, hang on...
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
.. to immersive games. I'd guess the next ones up will be commando (doom) like, but that's probably a ways away. You'll need force feedback for the rail gun :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I want a Human version of Leisure Suit Larry...
... are best left unrealised
Aided by a helper who can view the entire game board
"operator"
"I need a tunnel out of here, quick, and not to the other side of the board"
or else it gets the hose again.
...for the website's coin slot.
Do they include disembodied spirits chasing after you and trying to eat your very soul? Because if they do, sign me up.
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The problem with the Human Pac-man is that the human body can only consume about 6lbs of food per sitting. If you would recall "The Great Outdoors" with John Candy. The ol' 96er + a few desserts is all he could handle.
...they don't date much.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
LOL, what about a VR suit, I wanna feel the bullets rip into my flesh during quake. Kind of makes you wonder what happened to all the other projects out there related to VR, like VRML etc.
"If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music."
Doesn't sound too far off.
Will these cookies have information on previously attended mental clinics and other such human video games? Should I clear my cache first?
Wonder where they got that idea...?
(Albeit on a somewhat larger scale...)
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That's just.... amazing.
actually you are a troll because someone has already posted it MORON!!!
Now lawyers and parents are going to blame teen binge eating on video games!
Sounds like you need to visit Virtual World They used to have one in Walnut Creek, CA, when I lived up there, but now they seem to have shifted to selling pods to arcades and stuff. It was great when they had thier own buildings though. Everything was battletech themed, there was a big mech arm hanging from the cieling, and a bar where you could order drinks that were mentioned in the battletech books.
VR Pac Man, eh?
Well, just one more step towards making totally immersive VR game play...Doom and Half Life would be so l33t..Hell, just running around shooting headcrabs and soldiers would be fun enough..
Another cool thing would be, though extremely far off, VR lives...Just imagine: The Sims VR, or There VR....Schweet...
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Pacman? What kind of neophytes are these guys? Give me a break! A virtual orgy would be more appealing.
Uh, redundant? No, insightfully funny. The parent just showed us the link between Boomer adolescent games and the Rave scene populated by their progeny.
It's funny. Lighten up, Francis.
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Dont you hate when people judge you? thats why I never post to /.
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Actual audio footage of a website being slashdotted
Political Correctness is doubleplusungood.
this whole /. effect kinda reminds me of a swarm of vultures.. with wifi activiated pda's and pocket protectors.. no wait.. thats the beer effect kicking in... woohoo its friday!
moo
check out ARQuake - http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www /
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Sounds like something the BOFH would do to the accounting deptartment, involving power outages and 3-phase wiring stripped of its insulation.
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Actually, if you did immersive VR instead of mere augmentation, you could simply 'erase' an invisible player from other players views of the arena.
You'd have to have a cutoff - like you become visible if you're within five feet or so to avoid running into 'invisible' people. I also imagine you'd want the VR walls to line up pretty closely with the real ones to avoid toe-stubbing.
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what is a pocket protector?
I knew 2pints ago.. I think.
moo
A human version of GTA would make even more money than the console version - weapons, fighting, stealing, driving, stunt jumping, motorcycles, helicopters, prostitutes... what more would we need? I'd personally rather have all of that than Virtual Doom where I'm just killing monsters again and again, but ymmv.
"IMHO, Unreal Tournament CTF would be the best"
It's called Paintball, and real humans have been playing it in real life for decades.
Now all I need to see is the inevitable Nintendo Quote about pac-man affecting our growth...
In light of Rush's public problems, someone with a bit too much time on his hands decided to create his own version of human Pac-Man. It features Rush as the enternally-gobbling big-mouth trying to swallow pills (shaped like Oxycontin, of course), and being chased by bug-eyed Donovan McNabbs!
Go to this site and press enter to start. Send the link to your friends!
Before I get modded down by all the conservatives out there, let me give you a little advice: quit trying to defend Rush and let him fry for his public gaffes. Rush has always made you conservatives look like mean-spirited assholes. I happen to know lots of good people who are Republicans so I know enough not to judge conservatives by one big fat loudmouth. But not everyone is as forgiving as I am. Just because Rush has the same political beliefs as you doesn't mean that you have to "stand by him" or defend him or any of this bullshit. He got himself into this mess, let him get his way out. When we laugh at Rush, we're not laughing at the Republican party or at conservative ideology: we're laughing at one mean-spirited, no-nothing, jackass hypocrite. Don't take it as some kind of attack on you.
GMD
watch this
I mean what else could it be? You're wandering around eating pills being chased by "ghosts" and when you eat a really big pill, everything goes funky and suddenly you can eat the "ghosts".
If that isn't an acid trip i don't know what is.
Reminds me of a Computer Stew episode.
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looks like the server got gobbled up.
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They're called "Raves".
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Very cool. Only cost me $15 for LSD microdots. Monsters were very believable!
Unfortunately I have been unable to find pictures of the actual game maze or a game in progress on the web. However, you can see a photo of the giant Ms. Pac-Man dome the theme camp creators lived inside here and here.
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A friend and I wrote a 1st person perspective view Pacman-like game back in 1982-1983.
While the Human PacMan site is slashdotted, you can sate your appetite for dots by playing 3-Demon. -Rick
From 1 to 7. With huge pixels, please.
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If video games affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, chomping on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Oh wait...
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Mmmmm...virtual cookies...ahgggggg
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Pac-Man VR is an actual game, not too disimilar from what is being discussed. It was made in the late 1990s.
'[...] players realize their pacman fantisies as they physically move around in a wide-area setting eating cookies and avoiding monsters.".
:)
How is this different from any modern electro-dance setting? People already eat lots of power-cookes (ecstasy pills) while avoiding the monsters (the big fat guys that can't seem to take a step without slamming into someone)
by Stephenson...
Contextual data via the metaverse for anything or anyone in view is displayed in a hud.
I think the addicts of this tech were called "ghouls".
Do they get to eat power pellets, and then chase after (and eat) those ghosts!
Now all of those nerds, who never had contact will now actually get to EAT some Pink(y)
How about running IN a call of some sort, as your favorite rodent pet does.
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
What if you're one of the few that has SEXUAL fantasies about Ms. Pac Man? Can we act those out, too? Rrrowr..
I have no idea what it would cost, but it would blow LaserQuest away if you could actually get it to work for 20 players at a time.
Imagine seeing before you 3D representations of the solitaire cards. You pick them up, feel the razor-thin edge, turn them over to see the artwork on the back. Shuffle them and they make a satisfying ripple sound. Play any of hundreds of varieties of solitaire, or ignore the rules and build a house of cards. Just how far will gaming technology take you?
but I stole it from DaVinci. I posted the the Gamedev boards a long time ago about an idea for a game using laptops with internet connections and GPS units, played in automobiles--sort of a "tank battle" style game, but requiring you to drive around in real cars (dubbed "Car Wars"). The laptop computers allowed introducing computer-generated conditions such as "radar", communications, GPS points you would be required to visit in order to pick up weapons, ammo or repair damage. You played the game on-screen, but the GPS-feature meant that you actually had to move around in the real world to play it. There was no way to avoid using vehicles as GPS is still only quickly accurate to within a few dozen meters or so--so you'd need a wide area to play across, and a way to effectively move around in that area.
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Most people polled couldn't afford laptops+GPS units then, and many can't now--but the hardware is getting cheaper and I still think that eventually gamers will want to get off their butts and go play outside.
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Sounds like my three year old son's current reality...
I wonder if they've figured out the 3-D problem with Pac-Man. I made a Pac-Man level for the old Bungie game Marathon, and it's totally a different game in 3-D.
In the original game, you, as Pac-Man, can see the entire field, but in 3-D, you can only see some very narrow, cramped hallways. It's kind of frustrating, because there's no way to know what dots you've eaten, and you have no idea where the ghost-monsters will be coming from. Unless your Pac-Man's packing a rifle, you'll be dead just as soon as you saw the first ghost-monster. Not fun.
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush!
Endless possiblilites here I think...
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No "life meter." It is completely impractical to get hit and keep playing.
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