................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. G O O D M O R N I N G S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Last updated: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2001, 8:30 AM We're sorry, your assault cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and... A startup called It's Alive will soon turn the streets of Stockholm into scene worthy of Kubrik's Full Metal Jacket (on a bad day, of course) when they launch a virtual reality war game based on mobile positioning technology. Using mobile phones enabled with location-sensing technology, participants will track one another in what is described as a sort of "high-tech paint ball." Players, or (sigh) "Bot-fighters", released into the ... wilds of Stockholm will locate and shoot one another with their cell phones in apparent disregard for those non -threatening citizens checking their messages or dialing 900 numbers. Mobile positioning will be used to determine whether the users are close enough to each other to be able to score a kill. Tom Soderlund, product manager for It's Alive, believes games like this one will appeal to a PlayStation generation anxious to get its butt off the couch and out into the great outdoors. "We want to create games where the real world is the playground," he said. http://www.itsalive.com/ http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/291770_sweden_20bus.A.html In the game being released this spring by a start-up called It's Alive, players will track and shoot each other with their cell phones in a kind of high-tech paint ball. Players scanning the landscape may see the shops and cafes lining the cobbled, winding lanes of the city's old Gamla Stan section. But their cell phone screens will indicate they've stumbled on a secret network for aliens trying to take over the world. (c) 2001, SiliconValley.com.
