EXTENDING GAMEPLAY WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING DEVICE
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1. A method of augmenting a gaming experience, comprising:
- at a physical activity monitoring device, receiving from a game system an indication of one or more physical activities to be performed as an extension of a game being played on the game system;
at the physical activity monitoring device, measuring physical activity attributes of a user wearing the physical activity monitoring device;
at the physical activity monitoring device, determining the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities based on the physical activity attributes; and
outputting from the physical activity monitoring device to the game device an indication of the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities.
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Abstract
A physical activity monitoring device receives an indication of one or more physical activities to be performed as an extension of a game being played on a game system and measures physical activity attributes of a user wearing the physical activity monitoring device. The physical activity monitoring device determines the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities based on the physical activity attributes and outputs to the game device an indication of the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities.
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1. A method of augmenting a gaming experience, comprising:
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at a physical activity monitoring device, receiving from a game system an indication of one or more physical activities to be performed as an extension of a game being played on the game system; at the physical activity monitoring device, measuring physical activity attributes of a user wearing the physical activity monitoring device; at the physical activity monitoring device, determining the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities based on the physical activity attributes; and outputting from the physical activity monitoring device to the game device an indication of the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A physical activity monitoring device, comprising:
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a communication subsystem configured to receive from a game system an indication of one or more physical activities to be performed as an extension of a game being played on the game system; a sensor array including one or more sensors configured to measure physical activity attributes of a user wearing the physical activity monitoring device; a controller trained with a machine learning process to determine the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities based on the physical activity attributes; and a reporter configured to output to the game device an indication of the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of augmenting a gaming experience, comprising:
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at a physical activity monitoring device, receiving from a game system an indication of one or more physical activities to be performed as an extension of a game being played on the game system; at the physical activity monitoring device, measuring physical activity attributes of a user wearing the physical activity monitoring device with a sensor array including one or more sensors included in the physical activity monitoring device; at the physical activity monitoring device worn by the user, automatically determining the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities based on the physical activity attributes; communicating to the user an indication of a game attribute affected by the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities; and outputting from the physical activity monitoring device to the game device an indication of the user'"'"'s progress towards completion of the one or more physical activities.
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