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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:48:48 -0500
From: Franke James <franke () jamesgang com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>, <ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com> Cc: Sven Hålling <sven.halling () itsalive com> Dave, Thought you would enjoy this clarification -- Sven Halling, CEO of It's Alive (Creators of Bot-Fighter), and a fellow game developer, sent this comment to me re: Antony Hawkins' post. Think Viral, Franke James Co-founder, Nerdheaven Ltd. www.nerdheaven.com www.jamesgang.com Sven's comment: Seems Mr Hawkins has not really read up on the tech side of this before he is jumping on it. The accuracy of the location systems used are AT BEST +/- several hundred meters in a city centre. Would be hard to pinpoint your guy in a crowded street with that level of accuracy. On the country side accuracy may be in the order of kilometers. When accuracy is improved by using GPS receivers in the handsets, the game design will be adopted by introducing sufficient level of inaccuracy in order to protect personal integrity. As a serious game provider we would of course never let the scenario of Mr Hawkins´ actually happen in reality. Regards Sven Hålling | CEO +46-705-82 53 23 | sven.halling () itsalive com | www.itsalive.com It's Alive - the provider of pervasive games. Redefining reality. > >>Hapless hunt >>Fantastic! According to Iain Bruce (The mobile manhunt, January 31), >>you'll soon be able to play real-time man hunts from your mobile phone >>When two players meet, the only thing either will know for certain is that >>they possess a fairly new, posh and expensive mobile phone. Here's an >>alternative vision: you are in a crowded high street, pursuing your quarry >>using your phone. The handset beeps again and then, just as you close in, >>a hand clasps your shoulder, spins you round, you get punched in the face, >>then your assailant grabs your phone and legs it. Even better, the >>assailant only needs to steal one expensive phone then sit down and wait >>for other hapless victims. What a marvellous triumph of technology over >>security. >>Antony Hawkins >>a.d.hawkins () sheffield ac uk >> >>and it is to be found at: >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,645869,00.html >> >>Cheers >> >>Brian >> >>-- >>Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, >>NE1 7RU, UK >>EMAIL = Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 >>FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ > >For archives see: >http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ >
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