Birds Need To Suddenly Appear
You know what sounds more exciting than actual bird watching? Why, a game ABOUT bird watching, of course!
A collaborative online multimedia system developed by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Texas A&M University puts an unusual assortments of technologies–including the Web, video, photography, and game technology–together in pursuit of an even more unusual quarry: exotic birds.
The new system, which debuts this week, is technically a massively multi-user online game that will allow groups of players to earn points by taking live photos using a single remotely controllable robotic video camera to classify wild birds they see.
Man, I can’t wait for the exciting day I take my kids into an Internet cafe, then remotely track birds from miles away, spot them out, take photos of them, and analyze the data. It’d be like processing a Google image search of “exotic birds”, except in this case, you earn points! The technologies of Pokemon Snap have come a long way.
UC Berkeley, Texas A&M Multi-User Game Is for the Birds [Campus Technology]
(Image from ScottsMind)
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