So I'll ask the obvious question. Resistance or Enlightenment?
Google's tongue must be firmly in cheek when it asks us to choose a faction if the apps permissions are any indication...
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
#72It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series) Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is making a sort of game out of it.
I'm certain that book is well known to the development team :D
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#73This is very cool and creative and will hopefully push the envelope for mobile alternate reality!
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#74It resembles so much Shadow Cities ( http://www.shadowcities.com/ ) that it almost feels like copying.
Yeah, I wonder if Grey Area is involved with this?
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#75This is very reminiscent of EA's Majestic game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game) It was like X-Files conspiracy theories meets The Game (the Michael Douglas movie). Sadly, it didn't last very long. I'm hoping this will do better.
Thank you very much for this! I have been looking for the name of that game for years!
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)
"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.
I get what you are saying, but I disagree. If there were millions of invisible unicorns, surely we'd occassionally bump in to one. Azaleas would go missing. With the right technology, it might be possible to harvest them for ivory or meat or hoofs for glue.
If we live in a simulation, there may be experiments that would demonstrate the fact. There may be ways to 'hack' the simulation and break all kinds of physical laws.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)
Simulation is overkill; the Matrix approach is cheaper - run the simulation within the brain.
Maybe we are a simulation within some entities brain.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.
Nitpick: "We are in a perfect and undetectable simulation" is a meaningless statement. If e.g. someone found a privilege escalation in our reality's VM that would be quite meaningful.
Good point, that's how I meant it :) Similarly, if the unicorns found a way to become visible, it would become a meaningul statement too.
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#79Does anyone know if this is really 'multiplayer' or if your experience is in any way influence by the progress of others? I've toyed with a similar ideas but the problem was that your GPS location doesn't guarantee you are really there. There are plenty of ways to spoof your location. So, my point is it will only be a matter of time until there are bots that walk around for you. If this is purely a 'single player' ga…
Yes, it is multiplayer. You capture portals and others can come along and blow them up, taking them for the opposition. The promotional video certainly captures the feeling of 'someone is attacking this portal.. wait.. is it that guy over there staring at his phone?'
Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
#80Does anyone know if this is really 'multiplayer' or if your experience is in any way influence by the progress of others? I've toyed with a similar ideas but the problem was that your GPS location doesn't guarantee you are really there. There are plenty of ways to spoof your location. So, my point is it will only be a matter of time until there are bots that walk around for you. If this is purely a 'single player' ga…
Yes, it is multiplayer. You capture portals and others can come along and blow them up, taking them for the opposition. The promotional video certainly captures the feeling of 'someone is attacking this portal.. wait.. is it that guy over there staring at his phone?'