NSA Video Games Paper - American Civil Liberties Union

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<strong>Games</strong>: A Look at Emerging Trends, Uses, Threats and Opportunities in Influence Activities efforts are moving beyond vibrating gaming controllers and into truly immersive sensory devices. • Nintendo has been at the forefront of major hardware manufactures and publishers in implementing haptics. Nintendogs is a popular game that elicits emotion through its advanced voice and touch recognition software, helping to create a strong emotional bond with the virtual pets. Users must talk and touch the dog to elicit a response from the virtual pet. Game designer Hideki Konno states, "It is one thing to type in a name and it is an entirely different emotional response to call and see the puppy turn its head and run over to greet you."cx Nintendogs has been an international phenomenon selling more than 4 million units worldwide. Also, the Wii, Nintendo' s newest gaming console, offers advanced interaction though wireless remotes where users must use the remote like they would use the item in the game. For instance, tennis requires the user to swing at the ball using different swings and techniques. The introduction of the Wii has taken interactive gaming to a whole other level of immersion. • Future devices employing haptics are not far off with some being marketed in the near term. One device by Novint Technologies, expected to debut later this year, allows the user to feel weight, shape, texture, dimension, dynamics, 3-D motion, and force effects.§§§§§§ Another product lets users interact physically with virtual objects. For instance, by using a sensor-equipped glove and a force-reflecting exoskeleton, you could literally feel the shape, texture and weight of an onscreen 3-D object. ·- ~ · ~ Such devices are used now for virtual modeling, medicine and the military, but as costs decrease, haptic interfaces could become more widely available in the gaming space increasing immersion tenfold. Exhibit 4-8: Haptic Devices by Immersion 3D §§§§§§For more information on Haptic devices by Novint, see their webpage at http://www.novint.com/ ······· For more information on Haptic devices being developed by Immersion 3D, see their website at http://www.immersion.com FOUO -Not for Public Distribution Page 58
<strong>Games</strong>: A Look at Emerging Trends, Uses, Threats and Opportunities in Influence Activities Chapter Addendum Emerging trends in the gaming space will be used to the advantage of groups committed to terrorizing societies to achieve their goals. They will be an enabler of a more mature and expanded gaming space, creating a powerful medium analogous to the internet for terrorist organizations to reach and target core audiences. • Emerging trends will drive growth in the gaming space across age, gender and cultural boundaries. Spread of existing technologies like broadband Internet access and the advent of new technologies like next generation wireless networks and mobile devices will mean greater access to individuals residing in burgeoning markets. • Changes within the gaming space will continue at a rapid pace. While marked differences will exist particularly with access methods, newer markets are expected to mirror the experience of more mature markets in terms of growth and usage patterns. Gaming will become a powerful medium playing an increasingly important role in a range of ordinary human affairs, particularly in virtual worlds, providing an extension and a virtual component to supplement their operations. FOUO -Not for Public Distribution Page 59
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