Sony patents 'real' Matrix

[Figarou]

http://weblog.physorg.com/news1519.html


Watching a movie and playing video games in your brain?


Whoa!!!

[Set]

...Riiiight.

[Figarou]

...Riiiight.

Now wouldn't it be cool if they actually made such a device?

I bet everyone in here will play "Freeborn" in thier brain. Imagine being able to touch one of the werewolves. That or have one of them bite you. (In your mind, of course.)

[Apokryltaros]

...Riiiight.

Now wouldn't it be cool if they actually made such a device?

I bet everyone in here will play "Freeborn" in thier brain. Imagine being able to touch one of the werewolves. That or have one of them bite you. (In your mind, of course.)

"Across the globe straight to your frontal lobe, it's Kent Brockman!"

[outwarddoodles]

I'd be to much of a wimp to tryh it but wow, I would love to become a werewolf through one of those!

[Aki]

Now, that would be cool.

[Figarou]

...Riiiight.

Now wouldn't it be cool if they actually made such a device?

I bet everyone in here will play "Freeborn" in thier brain. Imagine being able to touch one of the werewolves. That or have one of them bite you. (In your mind, of course.)

"Across the globe straight to your frontal lobe, it's Kent Brockman!"

Kent Brockman: ... and the fluffy kitten played with that ball of string all through the night. On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night.

[Terastas]

Oi. It might be interesting to see what the objectives of the games they come out for that system are. Is it me, or do video games not only become systematically more intense for every new console, but also systematically more dumb and pointless (I don't recall Barbie ever having a 16-bit game).

[Figarou]

(I don't recall Barbie ever having a 16-bit game).

Ummmm....I'm not going to ask.



j/k

[WolvenOne]

Barbie not only had a 16bit game, she had an 8bit one as well. Yes, I remember seeing it stores as a kid. Probably because I was seriously offended by something so girly invading my boyhood hobby.

[Aki]

Oi. It might be interesting to see what the objectives of the games they come out for that system are. Is it me, or do video games not only become systematically more intense for every new console, but also systematically more dumb and pointless (I don't recall Barbie ever having a 16-bit game).

There are, like movies, crappy games and good games. You can find game with real depth and freedom, and then there pure A-grade crapola.

[Baphnedia]

It would totatlly change the meaning of "jacking in" or just "jacking" period, I suppose. Oh well. We'll have a plethora of new taboo words and phrases that posses inuendo.

[silverpaw]

Its funny the other day i was thinking out load to myself about thid kinda thing and hell yeah i would love to be in a werewolf movei even if it was a corney one and i was being chased by a blood thirsty WW

And i love the thrill of a chace even if im the prey...

[Aki]

Its funny the other day i was thinking out load to myself about thid kinda thing and hell yeah i would love to be in a werewolf movei even if it was a corney one and i was being chased by a blood thirsty WW

And i love the thrill of a chace even if im the prey...

Heh, that and this thread's topic made me think of something.

Werewolf + game + this = Virtual Reality Werewolfry.

Totally kickass.

[Ashwinder]

[silverpaw]

um yeah i diddnt cotton on to what your saying

please explain

[Terastas]

There are, like movies, crappy games and good games. You can find game with real depth and freedom, and then there pure A-grade crapola.

*nods* That's what I was hinting at. PS2 saw the rise of amazing titles like Grand Theft Auto 3 and Medal of Honor, titles that would have been seriously taboo in the previous era, but also supported the Barbie detective game and the Bratz dance mix. And the ones that really trouble me: the ones with objectives that you could just as easily accomplish in real life, like the board game titles, for example.

So yeah, there'll be some great titles for this system, but what'll come with it? I don't know why, but the first thing I always think of is Download a Celebrity (like on the Lucy Liu episode of Futurama)

[Aki]

um yeah i diddnt cotton on to what your saying

please explain

Sony patanted the idea of this 'real life matrix' okay?

So, think about a game that allows you to be a Werewolf.

Then imagine playing it with this 'matrix' in effect. Cool no?

And if you stil ldon't get it, i will have to bonk you with a duckie.

[silverpaw]

ok i get it i think... oh well what im thinking about is major cool anyway although i am hungry for a duckie... ....hehehe bonk what a funny word ...bonk...sounds like someone being hit with a wooden club...booya matrix thingy

[Scott Gardener]

The patent is useless and undefendable, at least over here in the United States, where I live. Sony can't sue me if I invent it first. In order to file a patent with our office, one has to have a working product. So, I can't hog the future by patenting today zero point energy generators, astral phase drives, quantum teleporters, quantum entanglement intergalactic networks, the Mindgrid, gheidei submolecular telekinesis, or various methods of blowing up cosmic strings as a way of creating new universes. It's great sci-fi, but until you have a working prototype, you can't stop someone else from inventing it and making a buck.

Of course, the rules may work differently in other countries. But, unfortunately, our patent office has been used as the model for others. I say unfortunately, because it's got serious problems going into the twenty-first century, where Internet technologies overlap in ways that defy pre-twenty-first century logic. Things that seem pretty self-contained in previous generations, like selling music, watching TV, or making phone calls, can now be integrated by one service provider. (My TV cable company routinely advertises their VOIP "Digital Phone.") And in ten years, most Internet and telephone service will both be wireless. (Cable companies, watch out; the phone companies will strike back big-time!)

The problem with this, is that so much overlap happens, that companies routinely try to invent stuff only to get sued for it by someone else. Software in particular has this problem. The net effect is that the patent system is styfling innovation, rather than promoting it!

The last thing we need is an already screwed up international patent system to be made even worse by pre-emptive patents. Then, it gives lawyers even more empowerment over everyone else, to work and live as predators over everyone else.

[Apokryltaros]

So yeah, there'll be some great titles for this system, but what'll come with it? I don't know why, but the first thing I always think of is Download a Celebrity (like on the Lucy Liu episode of Futurama)

I AM LUCY LIU: GIVE ME YOUR SPINE