[Art]

Clone yourself to enter the game.

Check this out at:

http://www.3q.com/3d_enter.htm

[Freddy]

Woah, TRON is now a reality!

[Maviarab]

Have to make sure the "master controller" does not try to convert us lol

[Freddy]

Wonder how much it costs, we could make .htr's out of all and meet up somewhere in cyber space!

Which reminds me, the new Matrix Online game started not so long ago, has anyone heard anything about this as it was looking fantastic form the beta version last year?

They delayed the start so it could begin all over the world at the same time.

If anyone is interested in having a go at that, you have to get the software but then pay a monthly subscription.  I don't know how much that is, but it's on my list of new toys.

[Maviarab]

Roger,

Im a subscribed member to the site.

Last I heard it was about $15 monthly (which id pay lol)...and yes the full version is outstanding.

Unforyunatly my own PC is nowhere near the specs required to play it though  :tantrum:

But probably well worth joining up.

[Freddy]

Same problem here, I'm going to get a complete new system I think.

[FuzzieDice]

How do they actually clone you? You have to go to a location and get inside some machine? Unfortunately, I can't travel too far out of my immediate area due to health problems.

Also, I wonder if they could clone my car? I'd love to have a virtual clone of Dryden that actually CAN talk and 'think' on his own!

This sounds like Sci-Fi though. Amazing if it's true. Would be so neat for other uses. Imagine wars being fought as virtual games instead and no actual physical casualties? Imagine criminals still staying in their homes (guarded) but virtually jailed, or better yet, jailed but virtually in a world where they learn to live approrpiately again, or violent criminals put to use in virtual wars instead of those who come home with mental problems, etc. This could be helping make use of everyone's 'talents' no matter who they are. Nobody would "sit and rot" - everyone would have a use. Disabled people could be working again. I know the computer has helped me get back to work and earn some of my own living, despite my disability. Without the computer, I can't work.

Medicine can use this to help those with severe conditions by using their 'virtual clone' to test and simulate instead of causing more stress and suffering to the physical body, to see what treatments could actually be probable of a cure or at least treatment via computer simulation. Less suffering for the patient, more study for doctors and it could go into databases for excellerated research.

Space exploration would benefit from using these as simulators so astronauts could actually experience the effects of space without physically doing so. Same with anyone who is in military, reasearch or government programs.

This kind of technology could very well have some great uses!

And maybe even spawn another technology much like Star Trek's holodeck some day in the future. Who knows...

Cool find, nonetheless!

[Freddy]

In answer to your first question FuzzieDice, I'm guessing it is a machine similar to those they use to scan human bodies for medical issues and also like the machines they employ for scanning mummies and so on to generate a 3D model...

[FuzzieDice]

Cool. Kinda reminds me of those photo booths at fairs and arcades where you go in, get your picture taken, pick out funny frames and effects and come out with a printout of your photo. But it's the 21st century so they do even better now days.

[Freddy]

lol, yes I can picture it now "Photo3D Booth" in every post office, 3D family albums. You'd be able to make up a photo without even being there!

[Art]

Laughable or not, ideas are already in the works here in the US to be able to use such devices as those cameras at the ATM / bank machines to allow one to take a photo for a new drivers license or ID.

Here, in your average metropolitan city, a person is photographed about 20 times a day, and most don't even know it.

Big brother is already here and has been for some time. The intrusiveness of our government (similar to the movie Enemy of the State) is ever present and ever growing.

I think most of us have already been digitally cloned and don't realize it yet.

Have a nice day! 

[FuzzieDice]

Art, that smiley you used is hilarious! LOL!

Yeah, I bet that's the case. But, I think if we didn't have 'problems' with certain behaviors that are private and none of anyone's business, then it wouldn't be such a big issue. Social predjudice is I think what causes 99% of these problems, unfortunately. Of course it could be other things too.

I try not to worry too much about it because I don't do anything to cause anyone harm anyway.

And besides, I might have a nasty habit of breaking cameras.  :Gold Bouncy Face Md Wht:  :shocked1: 

Seriously! I went in to get a new photo for my driver's license one time because I decided to stop dying my hair and had it cut short. So I looked quite different. They tried to get my picture and the camera stopped working. I had to joke about it. Was good for a few laughs. 

[Freddy]

What I find spooky about that clone thing is that, someone somewhere has a copy of your body, or it is floating around in cyberspace, just what will be done with it?

 :huh1: :huh1:

[FuzzieDice]

Good point, Freddy. But then, if I had a twin sibling at birth that looked identical to me, would I worry about what they would do looking like me? Probably not. But at least they have a mind of their own.

For this, it sounds like the owner and the company are the only ones with access to the clone, and that the company wouldn't be using the clone, the user/owner would.

[Art]

Yes, it's only the looks that are deceiving. When it gets down the those retina scans, they're as individual as fingerprints.

Here's looking at you, kid!
 :shocked1: