Human Pacman

It's a project of the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. It's called "Human Pac Man." And, by golly, Human Pac Man it is: complete with back pack computers, VR gloves and goggles!

There's something even more than wonderful about this - this extraordinarily high-tech research dedicated to the pursuit of a living Pacman game. I quote: "Permeation of technology into everyday life is made easier when the human experience it creates is made associable with day-to-day encounters. Human Pacman, based on the popular arcade Pacman from the 1980s, is a novel and entertaining game which seeks to bring about such association through stimulating multiple human senses and perception. It is a real-world-physical, social, and wide area mobile entertainment system that is built upon the concepts of ubiquitous computing, tangible human-computer interaction, and wide-area entertainment networks. Human Pacman is pioneering a new form of gaming that anchors on physicality, mobility, social interaction, and ubiquitous computing."

Ah, so it's not just for fun. I see. Research. Exploring the outer fringes of Human/Computer Interface. Yeah. That's what it is. Not just fun. An investigation in how to create more.