LOCATION-BASED GAMES AND AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS
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Abstract
Handheld location based games are provided in which a user'"'"'s physical location correlates to the virtual location of a virtual character on a virtual play field.
Augmented Reality (AR) systems are provided in which video game indicia are overlaid onto a user'"'"'s physical environment. A landscape detector is provided that may obtain information about the user'"'"'s landscape, in addition to the user'"'"'s location, in order to provide overlaying information to an AR head-mounted display and control information to non-user controlled video game characters.
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4. A computer-readable medium having program logic thereon for performing the method comprising:
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providing 3-D video game indicia to a head-mounted display of a head-mounted device with respect to a physical playfield based on video game logic associated with a video game, wherein said head-mounted device includes a processor; utilizing a detector to determine landscape characteristics of said physical playfield, wherein said video game logic utilizes said landscape characteristics in providing said video game; and utilizing a locating device to determine the physical location of said locating device on said physical playfield, wherein said video game logic utilizes the physical location of said locating device in providing said video game.
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Specification