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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] hasta be a pony in here somewhere<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]> Earlier I (the non-bureaucrat human) commented:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/218423971-story">http://www.ktvu.com/news/218423971-story</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…This kind of thing looks like it would be cheap enough to make; a few dozen bottles of dishwashing liquid should fill a basketball court-sized room to a couple meters, ja? Then we could have the players wear SCUBA gear, and play… what? Soccer? Put down tumbling mats and do a much cleaner version of mud-rasslin? Co-ed nekkid capture the flag? Suggestions? This seems so novel, there just has to be a fun game of some sort in all this. The SCUBA gear makes me nervous however. Is there some safer variation where it involves foam up to about the waist, complete darkness, lotsa groping and carrying on, that sorta thing? Oh there is money to be made here somewhere, or failing that, fun to be had…spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ok so let us think. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Imagine some kind of game or simulated something or other which vaguely works towards the gray area between a virtual reality and meat-world reality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To make this worth doing, it would need to be other-worldly as all get out, ja? That leads to something that would really get the heart pounding, a shoot-em-up battle game or crime-fighter scenario, perhaps crime-doer, but those all make me squirm, peaceful type than I am. Furthermore, it suggests running around, which introduces the risk of collisions in any arena-type environment. So… heart-pounding action, limited visibility, limited traction, non-violent please, low risk if at all possible, hmmmm….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Imagine the setting. Tennis court perhaps? With gym mats? We have it enclosed by a chain-link fence with pads on the support posts, analogous to the pads they put around the goal posts on a football field. We supply some kind of padded surface, such as… inflatable pool floats or air mattresses should do it, and allows us to clean up and give the boring old tennis players back their court afterwards. Fenced-in, so we could blow in foam easily using an ordinary leaf blower and a venturi tube device introducing soapy water: result: fire-hoses of foam. Nothing here is expensive or high-tech, ja?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK now imagine, total darkness, perhaps waist-high foam (do we need the foam?) with players perhaps wearing VR devices of some sort which conceal his or her identity (that part is important.) We can imagine an LCD screen bent around like the shield on a motorcycle helmet, projecting inward. We can imagine a group of people in this dark arena interacting in some way, with complete anonymity, doing whatever they want and perhaps seeing whatever they want.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What could we do with that?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>