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Human Pac Man

Posted by michael on from the one-way-to-get-exercise dept.

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."

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  1. Hmm..... by exhilaration · · Score: 5, Funny
    players realize their Pacman fantasies

    Is this before or after the men in white coats take them away?

    1. Re:Hmm..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I'm still waiting to realize my Ms. Pacman fantasies.

  2. As the saying goes by SkArcher · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 /.
  3. Leisure Suit Larry by Suit_N_Tie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want a Human version of Leisure Suit Larry...

  4. Some PacMan fantisies (sic) ... by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... are best left unrealised

  5. maybe we need a better game for this by undernourished · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

  6. I see dead people... by timsmells · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they include disembodied spirits chasing after you and trying to eat your very soul? Because if they do, sign me up.

  7. The sound of ./ by SoftwareTechie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actual audio footage of a website being slashdotted

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    Political Correctness is doubleplusungood.
  8. Re:john candy by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > 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.

    Yeah, I just finished playing Human Pac-Man. Didn't need no VR either. Just run around a table with four turkeys, four bowls of garlic mashed potatoes, two bowls cranberries, and pack in 240 bread crumbs! w00t!

    (I almost got the 1600-point turkey, but instead it defeated me. Now I know why Pac-Man shrivels up and withers away like that. Tryptophan coma, dude.)

  9. I tried this out last summer. by quakeslut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Very cool. Only cost me $15 for LSD microdots. Monsters were very believable!