The idea
Add Alternate Reality devices to the game including but not limited to;
AR module for Cyber Eyes
AR goggles for organics
AR Recorder/Editor
The devices above would enable artistic/technical players to travel around the game world and enhance locations with holographic experiences that tell stories about historical events or display images or sequences of images of events past, much like how prog cloth activates a string of programming, the person with the AR device could go to the advertised location to experience someone's retelling of anything really, or made up fiction.
A visual story telling device that lets people express themselves using the game world itself.
I like to imagine that the creator/editor of the scenes would have to Geoscan the locations they want to program scenes/experiences for using the recorder device and then provide scripts and description modifications to be appended virtually to the physical world, then they could upload to a special use memory module/shard , label it, and sell them.
I imagine the product would be sold by NLM or a NLM Subsidiary and could be looked at potentially as a TV Producers starter kit.
Why it helps
What problem does it solve or player experience does it improve?
Dissidents can tell stories about oppression and revolution in the locations where they happened and allow people to relive history through their own eyes.
Corporations could hire people to create on-scene advertisements for products, productions, and events that have ties to actual locations.
Hobbyists and Historians can enhance the world with flavor and storytelling that adds layers onto the existing experience.
Simsense is a thing in Sindome as I understand it, much like a Braindance from Cyberpunk 2077, but it's a full dive type experience I think. This is like a compromise between what is probably a code heavy and fully virtualized experience and something that layers flavor and story telling onto the existing game world without having to generate more world to experience it.
Will this idea increase RP?
How would it create or change interactions between characters? If not, or you’re unsure, what other benefit would it provide?
It would create a new market for creatives and techies to participate in, and could add to RP in the form of story telling, history keeping, propaganda, paydata recording and delivery, all sorts of possibilities, AR games created for marketing schemes and recreation.
I imagine slotting/scanning an ARG shard with my Cyber Eye and going to the gates of China Town and reliving cultural events or large battles between syndicates that tell the stories of legends killing and dying, showing visualizations of the people that I can observe from the perspective of the story teller, integrated and appended to the end of the room description. Much like the holographic display for products in some locations on Gold, but only visible to people with the ARG shard and goggles/eyes. and I like to imagine slotting or scanning a shard that tells a story in the same location that is angry propaganda about the gang or syndicate that operates in the area, exposing their data and putting them on blast in a schmear campaign. A new way to reach and convince the masses to potentially alter loyalties, and spread discontent. Win a massive battle at a location? Allow people to relive your accomplishments by circulating a shard of your scripted retelling of the fight, and visual overlay of the blood and mayhem as it happened.
Other considerations (optional)
Are there related features or previous ideas? Would it make an underused skill more useful? What limits or tradeoffs might matter?
It would or could be another avenue of the prog cloth skillset to explore, that melding of programming and artistry. The nerd artist.
Add Alternate Reality devices to the game including but not limited to;
AR module for Cyber Eyes
AR goggles for organics
AR Recorder/Editor
The devices above would enable artistic/technical players to travel around the game world and enhance locations with holographic experiences that tell stories about historical events or display images or sequences of images of events past, much like how prog cloth activates a string of programming, the person with the AR device could go to the advertised location to experience someone's retelling of anything really, or made up fiction.
A visual story telling device that lets people express themselves using the game world itself.
I like to imagine that the creator/editor of the scenes would have to Geoscan the locations they want to program scenes/experiences for using the recorder device and then provide scripts and description modifications to be appended virtually to the physical world, then they could upload to a special use memory module/shard , label it, and sell them.
I imagine the product would be sold by NLM or a NLM Subsidiary and could be looked at potentially as a TV Producers starter kit.
Why it helps
What problem does it solve or player experience does it improve?
Dissidents can tell stories about oppression and revolution in the locations where they happened and allow people to relive history through their own eyes.
Corporations could hire people to create on-scene advertisements for products, productions, and events that have ties to actual locations.
Hobbyists and Historians can enhance the world with flavor and storytelling that adds layers onto the existing experience.
Simsense is a thing in Sindome as I understand it, much like a Braindance from Cyberpunk 2077, but it's a full dive type experience I think. This is like a compromise between what is probably a code heavy and fully virtualized experience and something that layers flavor and story telling onto the existing game world without having to generate more world to experience it.
Will this idea increase RP?
How would it create or change interactions between characters? If not, or you’re unsure, what other benefit would it provide?
It would create a new market for creatives and techies to participate in, and could add to RP in the form of story telling, history keeping, propaganda, paydata recording and delivery, all sorts of possibilities, AR games created for marketing schemes and recreation.
I imagine slotting/scanning an ARG shard with my Cyber Eye and going to the gates of China Town and reliving cultural events or large battles between syndicates that tell the stories of legends killing and dying, showing visualizations of the people that I can observe from the perspective of the story teller, integrated and appended to the end of the room description. Much like the holographic display for products in some locations on Gold, but only visible to people with the ARG shard and goggles/eyes. and I like to imagine slotting or scanning a shard that tells a story in the same location that is angry propaganda about the gang or syndicate that operates in the area, exposing their data and putting them on blast in a schmear campaign. A new way to reach and convince the masses to potentially alter loyalties, and spread discontent. Win a massive battle at a location? Allow people to relive your accomplishments by circulating a shard of your scripted retelling of the fight, and visual overlay of the blood and mayhem as it happened.
Other considerations (optional)
Are there related features or previous ideas? Would it make an underused skill more useful? What limits or tradeoffs might matter?
It would or could be another avenue of the prog cloth skillset to explore, that melding of programming and artistry. The nerd artist.
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