Isotopium is a game on Kickstarter that has a pretty nifty twist to multiplayer games/MMOs: The "world" is a 200 square yard scale real world model of a city, and the player avatars are actual drones made up to look like tanks, controlled via the Internet. It's not quite virtual reality, it's...
"REMOTE REALITY" is a new concept that incorporates remote-controlled robot technology. We created a gaming platform that allows a player to control real robots over the Internet in real time. Video streaming comes without delays from robot cameras. Game takes place in arenas that can be located anywhere in the world. All arenas are linked together. Players can switch from one arena to another in just one click and play in multiplayers mode.
This specific game is more or less like the World of Tanks MMO set in the real world, but it's easy to see how this approach could be applied to other real world settings using other kinds of remote-controlled drones. For instance, an MMO for flying drones that takes place in a sky city. Or a new kind of mixed reality game that incorporates drones and actual people. For instance, a futuristic prison escape game set in an abandoned warehouse/shipyard/utility company where the human players must escape through a maze, while prison guard "drones" try to spot and tag them with fricking lasers.
Hat tip: Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing.
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