Experiment: We're Suckers for Virtual Bods

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Giving "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" new meaning

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[wolfram23]

Isn't this true of, say, reading a book? Any good story, regardless of medium, tends to make the player/reader/viewer empathize with what's going on...

 

[jellico]

You need to go and read the original article in order to gain full appreciate for what they're saying. Otherwise, you just ready the short three paragraphs above and are left thinking, "Uh, ok, so what's the point of this article?"

It's actually pretty facinating that such a simple change of a person's perspective, could induce other sensory stimulation. This has a lot of implications for creating more immersive gaming worlds. Imagine what games will be like when even more of the senses can be engaged in the simulation.

 

[pwndcake]

This is a threat to America. Empathy is what Hitler did.

 

[cracklint]

call me crazy, but I actually liked trespasser, although it took 3 years to have a system that could run it. It was immersive for the time even though the floppy hand aiming was weird. The health meter tatoo was genius.

 

[Pei-chen]

[citation][nom]Wolfram23[/nom]Isn't this true of, say, reading a book? Any good story, regardless of medium, tends to make the player/reader/viewer empathize with what's going on...[/citation]
Agree. It is not just games. It is the same affect as contagious laughter and yawning.

 

[Stonehenge81]

I thought the game was great. I believe it was the first real attempt in adding physics into a FPS, but I could be wrong.

 

[puscifer919]

"A staple of contemporary gaming is that, when you look down, you only see the ground."

Ever play Crysis?

 

[adipose]

[citation][nom]pwndcake[/nom]This is a threat to America. Empathy is what Hitler did.[/citation]



Sorry no one else got the Daily Show/Glen Beck reference and modded you down.

 

[HolyCrusader]

The vast majority of First-person games do not allow you to look down at your character, aside from the occasional hand or foot. Trespasser did to a degree, and despite the titillation factor, was rather revolutionary and original. It was just sad that the rest of the game was horrendously designed.

The First Person RPG's Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3 do NOT offer this feature, nor are there any mods that can force this feature in. In fact, it's hard-coded into the engines to deliberately keep your physical body hidden while in 1st-person view, for reasons I've not been able to fathom. Those kind of games would most benefit from the ability to see your entire character while looking through his or her eyes.

 

[mattfoo2324]

[citation][nom]pwndcake[/nom]This is a threat to America. Empathy is what Hitler did.[/citation]
Seriously? You're down voting him for a Glenn Beck quote from the Lewis Black segment on The Daily Show a couple nights ago. Probably doesn't mean it...

 

[theroguex]

[citation][nom]HolyCrusader[/nom]The First Person RPG's Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3 do NOT offer this feature, nor are there any mods that can force this feature in. In fact, it's hard-coded into the engines to deliberately keep your physical body hidden while in 1st-person view, for reasons I've not been able to fathom.[/citation]

Why continue to draw all those high-polygon-count player models when they're not seen during the vast majority of gameplay? It's a waste of resources that could go to making the REST of the environment look better. Sorta common-sense, if you ask me.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]theroguex[/nom]Why continue to draw all those high-polygon-count player models when they're not seen during the vast majority of gameplay? It's a waste of resources that could go to making the REST of the environment look better. Sorta common-sense, if you ask me.[/citation]
They get drawn on the many NPCs in the game, how much more work is it to include the character? This makes sense.

 

[bv90andy]

it took me 2 minutes to understand that second picture without reading the text. Shame on me

and what's with the early 2000s graphics?

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Interesting ideas about human perceptions.

 

[sithmuffin]

This concept isn't new either. Second Life allows anyone to create male or female avatars and has been doing so since 2004. When i experimented with this I found the interactions with others in SL to be a very different experience for each sex. As this article implies, I had varying empathic responses based on the gender of my avatar. It really enabled me to develop a new perspective regarding male/female relations.

 

[killerclick]

[citation][nom]pwndcake[/nom]This is a threat to America. Empathy is what Hitler did.[/citation]

LOL Nazi Tourette!

 

[elcentral]

ewer seens i read the City of heroes comic bock, And one of the characters sad "why are you a girl? well if im going to stare at a but all day it might ass well be a nice one." id always pickt girl characters frue out my gaiming.