Control Video Games with a Camera

sEEKz writes "ToySight is set of cool games and toys to play using your iSight or similar FireWire camera. Using a system of object and motion detection to track your position, Toysight allows you to control buttons, sliders and perform gestures on the screen, putting you right in the action." I played it with my DV camera, and it worked OK, but I couldn't crash the little parachute guy. I want death and maiming in my video games.

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Buzkashi

[mnmn]

Death and Maiming are critical parts of any video game. In fact Sex and Violence form the basis of human psyche. Even in Chess, the sense of competition comes from the enormous pleasure of defeating the enemy, same in soccer.

Now you can change the graphics in counterstrike to replace the players with cylinders and remove the blood, but thats not really gonna make it any less violent. Youre still out hunting people and taking them down for pleasure.

The horsemen of Afghanistan play Buzkashi... where they fight over a goat carcass.. and the players whip each other. If the california govt existed there thousands of years ago to block that game, they would invent something new and just as bloody to replace the mens sport and bring back the spirit of competition.

Games really are no more violent than Rugby or Boxing. It is the extreme narrowmindedness that connects games with Columbine, but not with the general human history of competition and survival psychology. I've seen toddlers smack each other a good one, and thats all instict. You cant iron out people into good law abiding citizens. Surround them in a cucoon of peace and happiness, and they'll look desperately for Marilyn Manson and listen to Eminem.

Violence in video games is a reflection of us, not something that can affect us. Banning it is a bit like banning sex.

Actually, he is more anti-Jamie

[John Harrison]

If you read the comments in Pudge's journal you'll see that he and Jamie fight like cats and dogs.

Of course, I appreciate a dig at Michael as much as the next guy though, so we can classify him as anti-Michael as well.