Virtual Pets

Have you ever remembered the tamagotchi crazed? It was a hipped gadget in 1996 and it was marketed as the original virtual reality pet. It is a tiny hand held LCD video game that comes attached to a key chain. The goal of the game is to simulate the proper care and maintenance of a virtual pet accomplished by doing a certain task, responsibilities including feeding, playing games, scolding, medicating, and cleaning up after the false pet, all via digital commands.

According to the Wikipedia, a digital pet also known as virtual pet or artificial human companion. They are usually kept for companionship or enjoyment.

There were common features of digital pets:

1. used to give a sense of reality to the user
2. enhancing playability

• Most digipets have certain level of autonomy and unpredictability. The user can interact with pet and the process of personalizing can ake the pet more distinctive.
• Interactivity

Classified Interactivity

1. Short Term - direct interaction or action from the pet.
2. Long Term - action that affects pet's growth, behavior or life span.

These two interactivity are often combined .
Example of Common Features:

• responds to caring
• responds to touching
• training the pet
• supplies
• dressing up
• competition
• meeting other pets
• complaining when it needs care
  

FYI: Eyes in Pictures - Red Spots

All of us wonder why do eyes in some pictures have red spots on them? If you look like Dracula in a picture. blame the flash of the cam. The red spot on the eyes is the red color from the blood vessels that nourish the eye.

The eyes look red because light from the flash is reflected to the camera lens from the blood vessels in the retinas. The flash unit is located every wear of the lens when the flash goes off, some light goes straight into the eyes of the subject and is reflected right back into the lens.

So if you don't want to see those red eyes, avoid looking directly at the lens during picture taking.