I couldn’t find the room for the panel about getting users to contribute content so I ducked into a panel about Geo cache games… which ended up being very interesting.
I had heard of the traditional GPS treasure hunt type thing, but these guys took it way beyond that by meshing GPS, new technologies, and very wild imaginations to create real-world digital games.
Like these:
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Much of the panel was spent discussing “how the iPhone may change the shape of geolocaiton gaming?”
Jeremy Irish- “Still waiting till iPhone actually has GPS in it.”
Audience- [chuckles]
Also, the term “fuzzy location” was tossed around frequently.
One interesting point that Pacmanhattaner Denis Crowley made was that “the games get a lot of attention but they’ve only been played by a handful of people…for all the press that Pacmanahattan got only ten people played it.”
Interesting stuff.
Chris Troutman