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Using Nokia 5500 phones, the team was able to utilize the phone’s accelerometer for various tack and yaw functions. They also utilized RFID phones for some pretty intriguing mixed reality games.
The most notable of the games was a real-world Pac-Man game called Pac-Lan. Using RFID tags on players and tags positioned around a pedestrian area, they were able to make the game happen in the real-world. There was a Pac-Man and ghosts and pellets all existing simultaneously in the real-world and online.
As you can see, the game play is something like an elaborate game of tag:
It would’ve been even more interesting all the players had an N95 and their location would be translated in real time!
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
