UC Berkeley, Texas A&M Multi-User Game Is for the Birds

An online multimedia systems research in the development of the University of California at Berkeley and Texas A M University an unusual assortments of technology - including the Internet, video, photographic and game technology - the common pursuit of a more unusual for mining Stone Field: strange birds.the new system, the system appearance this week, is technically a large-scale multi-user online games, this group of players will earn points, the use of photographs taken at the scene of a single remote control robot controllable camera classified wild birds, they see. Backward technology, the so-called collaborative observing the natural environment - forest sutro (cone sutro forests), by Ken Goldberg, a University of California at Berkeley engineering professor, Zhen Song, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Texas A m. Funded by the United States National Science Foundation, Goldberg, songs, and their students have been working for several years, so that "Coordinated control" of a camera movement by multiple users through the Internet. " This is a new large-scale multi-player online games, "said Goldberg. "Rather than the virtual enemys guns, the purpose of players, cameras, live in the wild birds." The system uses a synergistic control interface that allows dozens of people to share a remote control pan, tilt and zoom cameras, according to the University of Berkeley news office.this leaves open the possibility of a tug-of-war over electronic cameras, Researchers concessions. And a user may wish to point the camera in a blue Ceyhan, if the majority of players taken directly to other places, to the system, the more popular choice. Have to wait until the system has been classified photos at least two players, and assigned points according to how rare birds. s Higher scores to get more influence camera position. Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, is sponsored robot camera projects from the rear deck of his home, and ignored the forest sutro in San Francisco. Read more: cone sutro forestcollaborative observing the natural environment