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

    and the origin of that joke is...

  4. 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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  5. 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.