Playing Earth: The MMORPG from Mars
I’m finishing up my grad school application right now — I have to polish one essay, start my other, upload my writing clips and pay my application fee before Monday, then set up my writing test locally and take it — and if I get in, I’ll be 3,000 miles away from my wife and child.
Besides the ever-present Treo, one of the ways Jenn and I will stay in touch will be World of Warcraft. (No Goldshire jokes, please.) It’ll let us interact in real time in an environment that allows us to “see” each other, after a fashion.
It turns out that NASA has a similar idea. Future astronauts on a Mars mission will likely do something very similar, logging into an Earth-simulation MMO to interact with loved ones back home. Sort of like Second Life, but with fewer freaks (probably).
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I can’t imagine what the lag would be like from Mars.
Comment by Tony — January 8, 2008 @ 2:00
However NASA’s MMO is designed, should be interesting none the less. Good to see tax payer dollars going towards such a thing.
Comment by Flagshipped — June 12, 2008 @ 16:52