Deliciosamente tonto me parece este link que me sopla Karramarro: el así llamado Human Pacman, una versión literalizada de aquel PacManhattan que tanta risa nos dio en su día. Se trata de lanzar a unos cuántos infelices a las calles a que traguen puntos virtuales a ritmo de awk-awk-awk mientras dan el punto exótico en las calles de su ciudad con unos aparatosos cascos de realidad simulada. Por supuesto, hay unos pajeros que los controlan desde algún oscuro sótano, resguardados de todo mal y de las risotadas de los transeúntes
Los resultados son altamente científicos, o eso creen ellos. Miren: “The game has several novel aspects: Firstly, the players immerse in role-playing of the characters Pacmen and Ghosts by physically enacting the roles. Players physically move around in a wide-area setting, performing tasks to reach their goals. Utilizing the computing power of wearable computers and the underlying network support, Human Pacman takes mobile gaming to a new level of sophistication by incorporating virtual fantasy and imaginative play activity elements, factors which propelled the popularity of computer games [1] , with the implementation of Mixed Reality on the Head Mounted Displays (HMD). The players also experience seamless connections between real and virtual worlds as immersive first-person augmented reality view (with virtual cookies overlaying the real world) and full virtual reality view of our fantasy version of the game, Pacworld.”
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