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Don't let DARPA find out about this or we'll have a public-private partnership between Valve and Raytheon operating functional manhack arcades in the next half
by solarpunk 3y ago
Don't let DARPA find out about this or we'll have a public-private partnership between Valve and Raytheon operating functional manhack arcades in the next half life installment.
- hyperific 3y agoThis reminds me of the time DARPA crowd sourced sub hunting drone testing in Dangerous Waters. https://www.networkworld.com/article/752576/software-free-darpa-software-lets-gamers-hunt-submarines.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/752576/software-free-da...
- karaterobot 3y agoI know not with what weapons Half-Life III will be fought, but Half-Life IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Ha ha, just kidding, they'll never make Half-Life 3.
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoThey already funded MMO's like EverQuest through Sony Online Entertainment / Verant Interactive, Inc. This was to facilitate the research for live battle "simulations" using the same technology for "theater operations." When I was researching this, I found a surprising amount of DoD/DARPA related funding into 3D graphics, and games. It kind of gave me an uncanny valley vibe of irony, in the sense that my mind went to a place of a cosmic joke that the Demiurge was an AGI born out of these efforts and it's been live for who knows how long. But yeah, that's just my crazy side on the second part...