A new Irish Innovation is going to bring Viking ghosts back to life on the streets of Dublin. The NDRC has a exciting hyperlocal game in development called Viking Ghost Hunt. In the game players equipped with Google Android phones will track down ghosts to real locations in the city and become realife ghostbusters.
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Locations will be found using google maps and using the camera on the phone as a window into the spirit world, ghosts will appear on the screen. Communication with the ghost will be also possible through the phone.
This kind of blended reality has a lot of practical uses too but could really change the nature of MMRPG games.
Quoting from the project page:
The technology developed by Viking Ghost Hunt will allow mobile phone users to play games that are based upon a player’s physical location in, for example, Dublin City. The game itself will be an engaging mystery adventure, bringing users through some of Dublin’s most exciting and historically significant Viking sites. Compared with traditional gaming, which is essentially sedentary, a central aspect of the project will be to evaluate the health benefits arising from users movement around the city.
It is fantastic that this kind of creativity and development is getting a chance to grow. All the best to the project team.
You can listen to George Hook getting his head around the idea here:
The Right Hook Technology Podcast
