real-world pacman...

[Don't panic]

...coming soon to your neighborhood.

The tech guys at Univ of Singapore are developing a mixed-reality pacman game in which you run around real streets, collecting virtual goodies and avoiding ghosts

homepage with images and videos here

apparently it is being developed for military purposes, but it could lead to some cool games.

 

[wdlove]

It sounds really cool. This type of training for the military should be very helpful. It would be bringing computers into the real world of gaming, with actual physical contact.

 

[Thomas Veil]

I'll play it, but I'm not gonna go "wocka-wocka-wocka"...

 

[virividox]

I'll play it, but I'm not gonna go "wocka-wocka-wocka"...

but thats part of the fun

 

[rickvanr]

Anyone here watch scrubs? they made a parody on PacMac a few years back with one of the doctors doing a pacman impersonation, it was halarious. he did the wocka wocka wocka, wooon when he turned

 

[iGav]

similar things have been done before...

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_cysmn.html
http://pacmanhattan.com/

 

[jared_kipe]

Why would somebody go through the trouble for this? And maybe I should tell them about a wonderful technology called a treadmill, they should adapt to walking in a very strait line.

 

[mslifkin]

I'll play it, but I'm not gonna go "wocka-wocka-wocka"...

Aw come on ... just once? Just one "wocka"?