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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."
Is this before or after the men in white coats take them away?
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
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"
Do they include disembodied spirits chasing after you and trying to eat your very soul? Because if they do, sign me up.
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.
Wonder where they got that idea...?
(Albeit on a somewhat larger scale...)
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Actual audio footage of a website being slashdotted
Political Correctness is doubleplusungood.
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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They already have a 3D version of The Sims. It's called GO OUTSIDE AND TALK TO PEOPLE!!!! :)
Very cool. Only cost me $15 for LSD microdots. Monsters were very believable!
Mmmmm...virtual cookies...ahgggggg
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Do they get to eat power pellets, and then chase after (and eat) those ghosts!
instead of making VR arenas, what about having the player run on a giant trackball?
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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?
Sounds like my three year old son's current reality...