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fAARS: A Platform for Location-Aware Trans-reality Games

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Abstract

Users today can easily and intuitively record their real-world experiences through mobile devices, and commodity virtual worlds enable users from around the world to socialize in the context of realistic environments where they simulate real-world activities. This synergy of technological advances makes the design and implementation of trans-reality games, blending the boundaries of the real and virtual worlds, a compelling software-engineering problem. In this paper, we describe fAARS, a platform for developing and deploying trans-reality games that cut across the real and parallel virtual worlds, offering users a range of game-play modalities. We place fAARS in the context of recent related work, and we demonstrate its capabilities by discussing two different games developed on it, one with three different variants.

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  • Game platform
  • trans-reality games
  • virtual worlds
  • mobile games

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  1. Computing Science Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E8, Canada

    Lucio Gutierrez, Eleni Stroulia & Ioanis Nikolaidis

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  1. Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechik (TZI), Universität Bremen, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334, Bremen, Germany

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  2. Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, Germany

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  3. Abteilung für Informatik und angewandte Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    Maic Masuch

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Gutierrez, L., Stroulia, E., Nikolaidis, I. (2012). fAARS: A Platform for Location-Aware Trans-reality Games. In: Herrlich, M., Malaka, R., Masuch, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2012. ICEC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33542-6_16

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