location awareness in the real world and massively multiplayer online role playing games in the virtual world

location based services

Elina Koivisto, (pictured above) Research Engineer for Nokia's Game House at the Multimedia Technologies Laboratory in Finland, describes how location aware mobile devices are changing game play and possible crossover between location awareness in the real world and massively multiplayer online role playing games in the virtual world.For video iPodWindows Media Version(Right click to download to disk before playing)