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The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm

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Re: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm

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Post by k310 »

A while back, I saw "Pervasive Games" in the bookstore and bought it.

Pervasive Games 2009

Edited by: Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros and Annika Waern

Description:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123748539/pervasive-g...

Reviews:

https://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/

Re: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm

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Post by RetroTechie »

Spend enough time in virtual worlds, especially (near-) photo realistic ones, and for some people, what's real / what's virtual may start to blur. Or aspects from the game leak into real life. Creepy indeed.

Although not quite what's discussed in the article, reminds me of the movie eXistenZ (1999). Well worth a watch if you don't know this one.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/

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Post by mojo74 »

Used to happen to me when I played a lot of tetris on the gameboy back in the day. When reading any books afterwards I would see the tetronimoes slotting in the spaces between the lines of sentences and words. Goldeneye (N64) had me eyeing security cameras in the real world and making silencer noises in my head for quite a while too.

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Post by a_t48 »

mojo74 wrote: post #5

Used to happen to me when I played a lot of tetris on the gameboy back in the day. When reading any books afterwards I would see the tetronimoes slotting in the spaces between the lines of sentences and words. Goldeneye (N64) had me eyeing security cameras in the real world and making silencer noises in my head for quite a while too.

I played a bit too much Blue Prince this past week or two and have started seeing the map drafting interface as I doze off...

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Post by musicale »

abstractspoon wrote: post #4

I dream vividly and extensively every night such that sometimes my memories of the dream content start to displace older real memories

Dreams are like this alternate/double life. It's weird how they occupy memory as well, though they seem to be most easily accessible to me around (or during) sleeping hours.
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