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Can You See Me Now? A Citywide Mixed-Reality Gaming Experience

@inproceedings{Anastasi2002CanYS,
  title={Can You See Me Now? A Citywide Mixed-Reality Gaming Experience},
  author={Robert F. Anastasi and Nick Tandavanitj and Martin Flintham and Andy Crabtree and Matt Adams and Ju Row-Farr and James Philip Iddon and Steve Benford and Terry Hemmings and Shahram Izadi and Ian Taylor},
  year={2002}
}
Can You See Me Now? was a mobile mixed reality game that took place on-line and on the streets of a city. On-line players moved across a map of the city that they accessed over the Internet. Runners equipped with wireless handheld computers with GPS receivers chased them by running through the city streets. Players communicated with one another using text messages and also received walkie-talkie communication from the runners as an audio stream. Can You See Me Now? was staged publicly… 
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