Real world and web world interactivity....

[Burbank]

For an assignment on my course I need to find an example of how the internet and the real world interact - i.e. like a game were you use both the internet and real world "things".

One's that are being used are Uncle Roy (London based tracking game), Book Crossing (leave a book with a book crossing card in it and wait for someone to pick it up and register it) and geo-treasure thing (hide an item somewhere in the world and leave clues to finding it).

Any one got any ideas....?

[Deadman_Deluxe]

For an assignment on my course I need to find an example of how the internet and the real world interact - i.e. like a game were you use both the internet and real world "things".


Does picking up women on myspace and "banging them senseless" count? ;)

[LoSTBoY]

Are you talking about context-aware devices? For example, a tag that you clip to yourself and will open doors automatically or sign you into your computer when you enter the room?

I recommend you check out 'Ubiquitous Computing', 'Pervasive Computing' and 'Sensor Networks'.

Some examples include:
- Smart Living rooms, plenty of ideas there, just have a google and some ideas should come up.
- Equator (http://www.equator.ac.uk/). A uk research site which develops outdoors ubiquitous devices. ( Check in Challanges > Devices)
- The last item you mentioned in your post is most likely Pirates! (http://www.viktoria.se/fal/publications/play/2001/pirates.interact.pdf)

Let me know if you need some more examples.

[Cody]

lol@Deadman