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Step from the shadows and show us your true colours. Signals can only be hidden in plain sight
Eyesight mobile technology is based on advanced image processing and machine vision algorithms that utilize the cellular camera together with user hand movements and translate them to commands on the cellular handset.
eyePlay™ enables the user to act as if they hold an object in their hand and perform real-life movements, while eyePlay™ translates that movement to corresponding actions in a game. Now your gamers can actually drive the steering wheel in a racing game. Or throw a shooting star at an enemy. Or shoot a basket in a basketball game. Let your imagination run wild. The possibilities abound.
In a nutshell, Eyesight technology enables you to use real movement to interact with a virtual world!
If you’ve never heard of Assassins you need to go here and here to find out more.
Last year Streetwars, a form of Assassin, was played in New York City, Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, San Diego, New York City, Burning Man Festival and Barcelona. Streetwars is a 3 week long 24/7 watergun assassination tournament.
At the start of the game you’ll receive the following in a brown manila envelope:
* A picture of your intended target(s)
* The home address of your intended target(s)
* The work address of your intended target(s)
* The name of your intended target(s)
* Contact information of your intended target(s)
Once you receive those items, your (or your team’s) mission is to find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker) your target(s).
If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target. This continues until you work yourself through all the players and retrieve the envelope with your (or your team’s) picture(s) and name(s).
Ssassins is an Assassins game hosting site which makes the job of organising your own Assassins game easier and more manageable.
Hot on the heels of Streetwars is the Vitruve Project (a mobile trans-world espionage game) and
Wifi Army (Mobile real world FPS game) – http://www.wifiarmy.com/ – looking forward to getting involved in them both!
(Disclaimer: I am personally involved in the development of Fiat’s digital presence with my work at AKQA)
BMW and Crysler DO NOT GET IT! (read the comments).
Ford sounds like it’s right behind them…
It’s interesting to see how Fiat are describing and marketing their Blue&Me technology.
They seem concerned about the detail, which is always a good sign. They offer Blue&Me EcoDrive as standard and have Nav and Map add-on features.
Fiat EcoDrive is described in greater detail here, but essentially it measures your driving style irrespective of the car you drive. It puts everyone on a level playing field and gives them tips and suggestions on how to improve their driving style, saving them money by lowering their fuel consumption.
It’s a niche, but interesting, concept and importantly it’s engaging whilst not being disruptive. EcoDrive promises to ‘teach drivers how to go greener’. Drivers can fit whichever navigation system they choose to the car, rather than being tied down to a locked-in version, suceptable to bugs and poorly executed updates.
I’ll be interested to find out how drivers communicate between their car and their desktop computers to make intelligent use of all the data that’s captured and (possibly sharing that information within a community???), but it strikes me as a far stronger proposition than attempting to steal a march on the SatNav’s out there like TomTom and Dash.net in the US, who only last week announced that they were opening up their API to developers.
What do you think? Do you want to watch YouTube in the car? Is being online important?? Is this running before you can walk or a bold move?
Off the back of my last post on Microsoft’s Touch Wall and my slightly off-topic update dealing with OpenFrameworks, these are the two guys behind OF:
Theodore Watson (http://muonics.net/)
Zach Lieberman (http://thesystemis.com)
United Visual Artists (http://www.uva.co.uk/) are also using it heavily.
Image taken from Theodore Watson’s latest work, Funky Forest: An interactive ecosystem
