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INVISIBLE - The Shadow Chaser is virtual reality game where players hunt down invisible goblins using indirect information like sound and cast shadows. The two cooperating players never actually see their targets and need to deduce where they actually are.

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  • Avg rating: (+5/-1 4)ck
    ck
    July 31, 2006, 12:41 p.m.

    Wonder if this will take off like laser tag? The backpacks remind me of Ghostbusters...

    • Avg rating: (+8/-0 8)Fabienne
      Fabienne
      July 31, 2006, 12:43 p.m.

      How do they make the backpacks "heavier" when you catch a goblin?

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Eliot
        Eliot
        July 31, 2006, 1:08 p.m.

        Water is pumped into the backpack.

        • Avg rating: (+1/-0 1)charbaby
          charbaby
          Sept. 22, 2007, 3:25 a.m.

          This isn't the 80s. It used to work like this.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCj4uWkOWHI

          This is the same demonstration done with todays technology.

          Only we used a video game instead of a robot and gun.

          And some punk college kid instead of an old geezer.

          But the result speaks for it's self.

          And I assure you, no barns or old geezers were hurt or killed in the making of this comment

          It starts off kinda slow

          It took us a moment to train our test subject

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1dRPTDKIc

          But after a minute or 2 she got the hang of it

          See for yourself

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUIoAEfivU

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