Sword Art Online

IBM just announced they are creating Sword Art Online: The Beginning a vrmmo making use of IBMs cognitive computing(remember Watson from Jeopardy?) to recreate the game world of SAO. Players will be scanned into the game(with a 3D body scanner or such?) and have their character controlled by movements with their body while wearing some kind of display headset.

The only thing really interesting about this imo given all the VR stuff coming out this year is the involvement of Watson on the project which is the closest thing we currently have to real AI which may be a sign we'll see some impressive NPCs in the game. Or it could end up the same way as most anime games do and be garbage just thought it was something interesting to share.

I personally think they're just using SAO's popularity to try and make something that will sell even is it flops.

I'm gonna look forward to the results but I'm not gonna be one of those to try it. Especially if it's SAO. (Y'all know what i think of it)