Guest Martin@Home Posted June 10, 2003 Report Posted June 10, 2003 Check this out :- SiliconValley.com Reading this, I think soon we will all be transferring our consious minds into the sims "matrix" and maxis will use our bodies as human batteries to power their huge software production factories !
Guest Rob.P Posted June 11, 2003 Report Posted June 11, 2003 We will be even closer when The Matrix Online game comes out.
Guest madu Posted June 11, 2003 Report Posted June 11, 2003 can someone expand on this a little plz...
Guest Martin@Home Posted June 11, 2003 Report Posted June 11, 2003 can someone expand on this a little plz... It was really just a comment on how online gaming is starting to reach the stage where more and more people are spending more and more time immersed in an alternative artificial reality. Online games used to be just "Fun", but are now becoming an escape from reality. As the games become more sophisticated, the level of immersion into them increases and you could see a future with virtual reality devices becoming the norm whereby the real world could slowly be faded out in favour of an altogether more likeable virtual one. Maxis, the "sims online creator", have created a world where the normal rules dont exist, there are no authorities to watch over the growing population, no governing body as such to provide any kind of structure for people to live their virtual lives by. What is really scary is that exactly the same thing is "evolving" online as would happen in real life if you stuck 100 or so complete strangers on a desert Island and left them to it. Anarchy, followed by mob rule. Eventually you will probably see the power struggle become more balanced many online gangs will appear and natural leaders will appear from those gangs. Its like a massive online social experiment. All of a sudden, its not pure sci-fi to imagine a world where the vast majority of the population are plugged into a virtual world run by computers (the matrix) with a few isolated people existing trying to tip the balance of power back in their favour ! Phew... Sorry, I seem to have expanded on that a lot rather than a little!! :lol:
Guest madu Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Thanks :lol: I thought this was some kind of a game I could play, ie: having my sim living in that virtual world, and I would once in a while manage his life and tell him what to do - that would kinda be cool! So the Matrix Online game is coming out? When is that gonna happen?
Guest Martin@Home Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Thanks :lol: I thought this was some kind of a game I could play, ie: having my sim living in that virtual world, and I would once in a while manage his life and tell him what to do - that would kinda be cool! So the Matrix Online game is coming out? When is that gonna happen? Thats exactly what you can do :? That was kind of the point of the post :?
Guest madu Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Pardon my ignorance :oops: Not too keen on games :lol:
Guest Rob.P Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 Matrix Online game is still in Alpha, they haven't even reached closed beta testing yet so it could be the next film release, xmas or Q1 of 2004. Haven't been able to find any other info out yet.
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