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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. Re:virtual light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why do sci-fi authors get credit for stuff they didn't invent?

    I dunno. Maybe to equal out all the times that SF authors invented stuff and didn't get credit for it.

    Blue screen technology, like your local weatherman uses -- say thank you to Murray Leinster.
    He got screwed on that one.

  2. Re:i'd like to see by selfabuse · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:mod poor AC up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    to get modded up:
    1. Say that it's actually Google cache of the original article.
    2. Make it a link.

  4. Re:First steps by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, in accordance with Newton's third law (conservation of momentum), they do. In fact, they have a hell of a lot of it, which is why the prototypes tend to be securely bolted to such stable structures as the ground. Apparently, because photons have momentum, even lasers have a tiny amount of recoil.

    Of course, it's much easier to harmlessly disperse the energy from a recoil than from the impact.

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  5. how 'bout human quake by bottlerockets · · Score: 2, Informative

    check out ARQuake - http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www /

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  6. Re:As the saying goes by whizzzo · · Score: 3, Informative

    and the origin of that joke is...

  7. Re:OT: There ought to be a law... by ShieldWolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Speaking of advertising: don't forget today is buy nothing day :D

    http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/

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  8. Eat dots in 1st person perspective view... by Rick+Richardson · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

  9. This has already existed... by Goldfinger7400 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pac-Man VR is an actual game, not too disimilar from what is being discussed. It was made in the late 1990s.