Can you save the World? - Disney testing LBS/GPS game

Select visitors at Disney’s Epcot center are out to save the world in a new prototype game that uses mobile phone GPS capabilities and location based services model to let kids participate in their own version of a Kim Possible adventure to save the world. The game is a test that the Disney’s Imagineers are conducting looking at potential games of the future. “Visitors at Epcot are being handed specially programmed cell phones with global-positioning-system chips. Video, audio and text messages direct the participants to places, and then activate special effects when they arrive, as they try to solve the mystery.”

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