Apple’s New Gaming Patent Would Allow iPhone Laser Tag [Patents]

” Interactive Gaming with Co-Located, Networked Direction and placement Aware Devices,” sounds dull, but Apple’s latest patent is anything but. The tech described would use augmented reality tricks to open up whole new kinds of portable gameplay-iPhone guns, anyone?

The gist of the patent is its ability to exploit the phone’s position-sensing guts-gyroscope, accelerometer, and GPS-to turn your iOS device into a controller that talks to other controllers. Imagine using your iPhone’s camera and screen to take aim at a pal, and then nailing her with a wirelessly-transmitted shot. Each phone taken with this kind of game would know the site of the alternative, constantly sharing positional data. Also described within the patent are Apple-sanctioned control accessories, allowing you to hold your phone like a gun or steering wheel.

This is pretty radical stuff from an organization that’s confined its gaming-highly successfully, it is going to be acknowledged-to whatever might be accomplished through solitary tapping, swiping, and tilting. But this new patent suggests Apple wants to take iOS gaming off of the lavatory and subway seat, and out into the open. And we’re excited. [ TUAW ]

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