Do you know paintball? This dangerous killer game where you marked with paint balls other people? And she also knows Augmented Reality? It is located according to Wikipedia, a "computer-based extension of the perception of reality." Ultimately, this one does nothing more than to capture your surroundings. The instrument with which one does this, a kind of layer sets over the picture and expands it refers to useful functions. So you can find for example in a foreign city through the filming of famous buildings by a mere click on this more about the building. But there are still a lot more playful applications. For example, the gunman app for the Apple iPhone .

For those who have seen the video, despite not quite what it is Gunman:
Before the games, the color of the sweater opponent is marked so that the software knows what that looks like the others. Now you can start the game. It is a few steps apart, so that one no longer sees the other. The iPhone continues to act as a kind of marker, as in paintball. If you have discovered the enemy now, "aims" to him and pressed on the display once to select it. IPhone has to be made the enemy, vibrates. Then starts a new round. Gunman takes advantage of the camera and wireless advantage. Communicate with the latter, Apple's mobile phones. In the not too distant future, the software should be as far advanced that even team death matches and capture the flag - rounds will be possible. Fascinatingly, the app probably only costs 79 cents.

Granted, the whole may well be a little nerdy. But that does not detract from the ingenuity of the developers. I play in person but still prefer paintball.

What do you think of the app? Is something morally defensible?

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