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- From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: APPS: TV game shows
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 9:05:48 EST
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- In the _Green_Guide_ of 7/1/93 (the TV/computer supplement to
- _The_Age_ [Melbourne]), p. 18, citing _The_Independent_ as source
- [do you get the feeling that you are getting fourth-hand news? ;]
-
- VR's first game show
- ====================
-
- "'AWOOGA AWOOGA!!', the irritating battle cry of the latest in
- gameshow hosts, somehow sums up the world's first virtual reality
- television program.
-
- "A made-up word for a made-up game played in a made-up world with
- presenter Craig Charles, better known as Lister in 'Red Dwarf'.
-
- "The studio audience appears to be largely teenage, male and vaguely
- heavy-metal in style. The game involves two teams, sports superstars
- pitched against ordinary people.
-
- "One team member stands on a platform which is wired into a network
- of five personal computers. These create and control the virtual
- scenes in which the contestant's borg can walk, run and manipulate
- objects; the borg has to solve puzzles and perform tasks, and
- exactly mimics movements made by the player. The second player guides
- his team-mate using a computer map.
-
- "The second team sits in a buggy and 'drives' its virtual image around
- the same map in pursuit of their opponents' borg, hoping to chase and
- harass it.
-
- "Broadsword, the production company behind the series, teamed up with
- British VR specialists Dimension International to create the program."
-
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-
- Interesting that the report refers to `the borg' doing all these things,
- not the people themselves. Perhaps that's due to the fact that it's
- a TV programme... maybe the viewer mainly sees some stick-figure running
- around in VirtualLand.
-
- John
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