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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. Next game please! by grub · · Score: 5, Interesting


    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.

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    1. Re:Next game please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's kinda sad that it's stuck with 'flat' 2D games. I mean Pitfall and Hunchbaack would give it some problems, although if you found a building site, I bet Chuckie Egg would be a helluva laugh...

      Centipede would have the potential to scare the crap out of you though; imagine a giant centipede snaking down the street towards you as you fire manically...

  2. 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.

  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"