So I'll ask the obvious question. Resistance or Enlightenment?
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
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#12Looks like they are paving the way for a Google Glass world.
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#13It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series)
Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is making a sort of game out of it.
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#14I want an invite! Tks
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#15Next on a TODO list: an Alternate Reality Game of which players are not aware.
YES! let's build the matrix! who's in with me?
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#16Seems like more of an Augmented Reality Game and not really a traditional ARG (Alternate Reality Game). The difference seems trivial but is quite significant.
It's both. The ARG trailhead is at http://www.nianticproject.com/
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On the surface yes, but Ingress is strategically brilliant on many levels. Well executed, this could make Android the 'cool' OS to have on your phone. This is a great strategy to build the Android brand and sustain their unit volume domination.
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#19It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets... Projects like streetview would become obsolete.
The possibility for alternate reality games will be immense, but I suspect that's just scratching the surface. We've only had this smartphone technology for what? 5 years or so? And so far all ours uses for this technology have been fairly superficial and mundane (by which I mean, if you'd gone back a decade and asked people "what would you make if you had a smartphone that could do x?" you'd probably get decent predictions of the present day). But in 10, 20 years I imagine it'll have evolved to something far beyond what we can currently imagine.
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#20Lots of interesting stuff going on in this space. Shadow cities is another one that's doing pretty well. The big question to me is, where's the Zynga of this world? Can you make casual location aware ARGs?
I tried playing Shadow Cities, and the interface was mostly confusing, so I stopped.