{"id":34,"date":"2006-04-24T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmu.mossiso.com\/697\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-04-24T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T22:18:03","slug":"frankly-its-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/04\/24\/frankly-its-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankly, it&#039;s disturbing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gee&#8217;s hung up on using video games for education, while some people are wanting to move it into the business sectors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All this has some companies mulling a wild idea: Why not use gaming&#8217;s psychology, incentive systems, and social appeal to get real jobs done better and faster? &#8220;People are willing to do tedious, complex tasks within games,&#8221; notes Nick Yee, a Stanford University graduate student in communications who has extensively studied online games. &#8220;What if we could tap into that brainpower?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_18\/b3982001.htm?chan=tc&#038;chan=technology_technology+index+page_today's+top+stories\">Business Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_18\/b3982007.htm\">And another one.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_18\/b3982010.htm\">And one more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality&#8230; Gee&#8217;s hung up on using video games for education, while some people are wanting to move it into the business sectors. All this has some companies mulling a wild idea: Why not use gaming&#8217;s psychology, incentive systems, and social appeal to get real jobs done better and faster? &#8220;People are willing to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/04\/24\/frankly-its-disturbing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frankly, it&#039;s disturbing&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wosP-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}