IP: more on It's Alive CEO comments on Have Cell Phone, Will Shoot

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Franke James <franke () jamesgang com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>, <ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com>
> Cc: Sven Hålling <sven.halling () itsalive com>
>
> Dave,
>
> Thought you would enjoy this clarification -- Sven Halling, CEO of It's
> Alive (Creators of Bot-Fighter), and a fellow game developer, sent this
> comment to me re: Antony Hawkins' post.
>
> Think Viral,
>
> Franke James
> Co-founder, Nerdheaven Ltd.
> www.nerdheaven.com
> www.jamesgang.com
>
>
> Sven's comment:
> Seems Mr Hawkins has not really read up on the tech side of this before he
> is jumping on it. The accuracy of the location systems used are AT BEST +/-
> several hundred meters in a city centre. Would be hard to pinpoint your guy
> in a crowded street with that level of accuracy. On the country side
> accuracy may be in the order of kilometers. When accuracy is improved by
> using GPS receivers in the handsets, the game design will be adopted by
> introducing sufficient level of inaccuracy in order to protect personal
> integrity. As a serious game provider we would of course never let the
> scenario of Mr Hawkins´ actually happen in reality.
>
> Regards
>
> Sven Hålling  | CEO
> +46-705-82 53 23 | sven.halling () itsalive com | www.itsalive.com
> It's Alive - the provider of pervasive games. Redefining reality.
>
>
> >
> >>Hapless hunt
> >>Fantastic! According to Iain Bruce (The mobile manhunt, January 31),
> >>you'll soon be able to play real-time man hunts from your mobile phone
> >>When two players meet, the only thing either will know for certain is that
> >>they possess a fairly new, posh and expensive mobile phone. Here's an
> >>alternative vision: you are in a crowded high street, pursuing your quarry
> >>using your phone. The handset beeps again and then, just as you close in,
> >>a hand clasps your shoulder, spins you round, you get punched in the face,
> >>then your assailant grabs your phone and legs it. Even better, the
> >>assailant only needs to steal one expensive phone then sit down and wait
> >>for other hapless victims. What a marvellous triumph of technology over
> >>security.
> >>Antony Hawkins
> >>a.d.hawkins () sheffield ac uk
> >>
> >>and it is to be found at:
> >>
> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,645869,00.html
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>Brian
> >>
> >>--
> >>Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
> >>NE1 7RU, UK
> >>EMAIL = Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk   PHONE = +44 191 222 7923
> >>FAX = +44 191 222 8232  URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/
> >
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