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(Click here for larger image)Gizmondo also used the E3 venue to unveil two new gaming features -- "Augmented Reality" and "Gyroscopic Camera Technology" -- along with a line up of GPS-enabled games exclusive to the device.
Gyroscopic Camera Technology uses movement detected through the digital camera at the rear of the device as a direct analog control input for games. This feature is said to be useful in a wide variety of games, and is currently being integrated into several exclusive titles by Gizmondo Studios.
Augmented Reality also uses the digital camera, but in a "radically different" way. By viewing specially designed graphics and symbols through the camera mode, a "three-dimensional and animated character or object can be introduced to the 'real world' environment with stunning effect," the company says.
Both new technologies are being built into a GPS-enabled adventure game called Agaju, which is being demonstrated "behind closed doors" at E3, according to Gizmondo.
About the GizmondoThe
Gizmondo is described as a multifunction entertainment device incorporating GPRS wireless communications, an MPEG4 decoder, a digital camera, and GPS, among other features. It runs Windows CE on a 400 MHz Hitachi ARM9 processor coupled with an
Nvidia 3-D multimedia graphics accelerator. The device won an award for
"Design Solution of the Year" last fall in London, shortly before its retail roll-out in Europe.
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