Wouldn't it be great if instead you could just press a button to send your boys bombing up to the virtual off-duty copper who's in charge, and make them start waving their arms in his face like a gang of Las Ramblas hugger muggers?
When two different people play a single-player mission in Call of Duty, their virtual soldiers have the exact same speed, resilience and accuracy (just as in Pac-Man everyone's chomper moves identically).
The military imagery is not too far-fetched in the example of Janowicz, a 22-year-old immersed in computer game culture, whose favourite PlayStation game is Call Of Duty, a virtual war zone where guns are the ultimate arbiter.
Increased sales of digital content for "Call of Duty" and virtual items in "Candy Crush" also boosted financial results for the April-through-June period.
To a kid raised on Ghandian entertainment and forbidden from all virtual things Call of Duty, the big screen offered a more exciting scene tonight: Masked and shielded warriors!
Danila Korsuntsev went beyond the call of duty in his virtual ubiquity, impressively adjusting to different ballerinas every night in "Diamonds," the third and final section of "Jewels," and to a gaggle of swan queens.
But it does come off as an incredibly nosy piece of surveillance equipment – sometimes you wonder if all this integration is just so that metrics can be taken on how long you can stand watching someone murder a hit song on X Factor before you boot up Call of Duty to shoot virtual people in the neck.
Of course SMEs and SOHOs are also heavy duty users of virtual collaboration techniques through offerings from Webex, DimDim, On24 and Citrix (GoToMeeting).
Coming from a world of heavy duty, enterprise-level virtual meeting client applications, join.me has been a breath of fresh air for me personally both as a presenter and, more often, as a meeting attendee.
Before a player of Call of Duty returns to the virtual front line after suffering a defeat, he must enter the purgatory of the game's loading screen.
