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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?
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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
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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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.
Of course, it's much easier to harmlessly disperse the energy from a recoil than from the impact.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Actual audio footage of a website being slashdotted
Political Correctness is doubleplusungood.
check out ARQuake - http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www /
i am the walrus
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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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
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.
Speaking of advertising: don't forget today is buy nothing day :D
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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!
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.
-- 'As it all washes away you know -- as it all is one, no one is alone.' -Cosmic Disorder
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
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.
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...