"Human Pacman"

[punkoffgirl]

Check out this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/16/explorers.pacman/index.html


"The Human Pacman is basically a wearable computer with a head mounted display and various sensors which is sensing my body's position and as well as the head orientation so I know exactly where I am and what I'm looking at," explains Cheok.

"So when we do this we can augment the real world with the virtual world, so the Pacman world becomes part of the real world. I can see cookies in front of me and I can collect them by walking through them."

In keeping with the spirit of the original game, Pacman can turn the tables on his pursuers by picking up power pills, in this case small Bluetooth-enabled boxes placed around the actual physical gaming environment.

[SoulBlazer]

O_O

[Graham Mitchell]

It's probably been discussed before, but it reminds me of this:

www.pacmanhattan.com

Sounds like fun to me, actually.

[rbudrick]

I've been wondering when this kind of gaming will finally come around. Shoulda been here by now, imo. How cool would a role-playing game based on this technology be? Or a Contra game?

<Drools>

Seriously, how much better can game system graphics get before we'd have to sorta go to the "next level" of things?

Hey, maybe it would bring back arcades, in the very least.

-Rob

[Graham Mitchell]

I've been wondering when this kind of gaming will finally come around. Shoulda been here by now, imo. How cool would a role-playing game based on this technology be? Or a Contra game?

<Drools>

Seriously, how much better can game system graphics get before we'd have to sorta go to the "next level" of things?

Hey, maybe it would bring back arcades, in the very least.

-Rob

I guess it should've been here by now, but I remember when Sega was trying to bring a VR helmet to the Genesis, they found that a lot of their testers were getting nausea and vertigo if they played for more than a half-hour or something. A lot of people report similar problems with the Virtual Boy, so these types of things may have been deemed ergonomically unsatisfactory and forgotten about.

The technology discussed in the article is a bit different than those examples because it doesn't cut your vision off from the outside world, and maybe that will solve some of those problems.

[SegaAges]

i am like the rest of them when i thought they would have had good vr technology for gaming a long time ago. this is just the 1st step in the future of gaming. online play used to bethe future, but we have all lived through it, and it is no longer the future of gaming, it is the present standard norm of gaming, just like people thought it would have been.

now vr technology is becoming better, so it is time to take gaming to the next level, and this will be it. everybody knows it was going to happen, it was just a matter of time before it emerged

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Just wait until we start getting games of GTA:SA that work like this.

Oh. Wait a minute.

[SoulBlazer]

A RPG using this would be awsome. Or how about a sports game? Imagine being a quarterback trying to rally your team in the last minute of a game or a golaie blocking the net. And actually, a GTA game would be interesting as well. ;)

[Psycho Mantis]

neat.

[optic_85]

That's very cool....LOL, but i bet you look like a real nut case walking around looking for fruits, and muttering "waka, waka, waka"

[Graham Mitchell]

That's very cool....LOL, but i bet you look like a real nut case walking around looking for fruits, and muttering "waka, waka, waka"

Or trying to to carjack an invisible vehicle.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Or even better yet..."Human Katamari Damacy."

[AB Positive]

Or even better yet..."Human Katamari Damacy."

When I went to my insurance place to work out an auto-debit system... I noticed all these crazy PVC pipes coming out of the giant lawn in front of the office. I immediately thought "I should roll those up for the collection..."

That's when I knew I had played that game too long. Just thought I'd share :)

-AG

[Cauterize]

Just wait until we start getting games of GTA:SA that work like this.

Oh. Wait a minute.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Classic!

[atomicthumbs]

Or even better yet..."Human Katamari Damacy."

Yeah.... SIG!