you're starting to get into the territory that Larry Niven covered in a few
of his novels, eg., Dream Park. Still it is an interesting concept, we get a
lot of Civil War reenactors. With this technology you'd could have battles
the size of Gettysburg regularly.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:34 PM
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> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hook in a pc run game server and you could have a fairly
> robust instant gaming networks.
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> larry
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> Extend the reach of that PC server across a wide-area 802.11
> hotspot (an Airport, a university campus, or a mall) with the
> full range of motion allowed by a portable system and we
> might just see the idea of gaming as a lonely, sedentary
> activity begin to dissolve.
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> Throw in cheap GPS receivers and you've really got something.
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> You could have semi-accurately modeled team/role-based
> gameplay: a bunch of "infantrymen" with PSPs being lead by a
> stationary, PC-based HQ. HQ would be monitoring the
> networks, enemy movements and so forth (perhaps calling in
> fictional air-strikes that have effects on real players in
> the field) allowing the tactical strategy nuts the chance to shine.
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> The infantrymen would have a much more first-person action
> and/or stealth oriented style of play. You could even have
> "medics" or resuppliers that would need to physically plug
> into their target's PSPs (via a wired connection - all while
> dodging enemy "fire") to transfer their goodness adding a new
> element to the larger game.
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> The same ideas could leveraged to do group, mobile "Dungeons
> and Dragons" with one or two (possibly competing)
> Dungeonmasters controlling things from a central server.
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> If the system became popular enough (to the level of the
> GameBoy) it would be worth it to large walking installations
> (museums, science centers, etc) to broadcast mini-games and
> educational content directly to these devices.
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> So many possibilities.
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> Jim Davis
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