Research in Distributed Gaming

• This is an active area of research. Here is a paper I found and read quickly.
• Meeting Technology Challenges of Pervasive Augmented Reality Games by Broll, Ohlenburg, Lindt, Herbst and Braun (2006) 5th ACM SIGCOMM
• The point of this is to give you a link into active research.
• First of all this is talking about pervasive games. Instead of using a desktop, you use goggles and are actually embedded in the game.
• The problem here is often to locate you and your surroundings and put those into a game. It helps if you're in a cave.
• Advanced input devices are now readily available (Wii).
• The game engines make extensive use of existing 3D game engines.
• There are problems with localization, putting the real environment into the game.
• There are also big problems with multiple users.
• This paper is a couple of years old, and they're playing real games like this.