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Alternate Reality for Scouts

28.03.2013

The American Intelligence Community Research Agency (IARPA) has announced a competition to develop a game that represents an alternate reality. The project, called UAREHERE, according to the scouts, "may provide opportunities for high-quality social, behavioral and psychological research in a setting close to the real thing." In other words, the game will create the most realistic interactive version of the real environment, which will provide the best conditions for the study of human psychology and social behavior.

Alternate reality games are plots (possibly fantasy) played out in the real world, that is, using the existing environment as "settings". To achieve any goal that is not always clear to the players, real phone numbers, transport, the Internet, search for keys, meetings with strangers and acquaintances, etc. are used. Moreover, the player often does not know which item or event is random, and which is a mere coincidence.

The plot of such a game is thought up by a group of people, but the participants often have an unpredictable influence on the plot, which forms new storylines. One of the most popular games of this kind was The Beast, created for the "promotion" of Steven Spielberg's film "Artificial Intelligence". About 3 million people from different parts of the world took part in this game.

For scouts, such games are of particular interest, since they allow not only to study the behavior of people, but also to develop new, more effective methods of work. Due to the fact that the game is played in a real everyday environment, the number of conventions is minimized. At the same time, the goals of the game are unknown to ordinary players, which plays into the hands of the scouts-organizers. Playing in an alternate reality can become a valuable tool for conducting the largest social and highly specialized research.

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