Before Crisis Beta Testing, Gain Magic from Cameraphone

Gizmodo reports on Japanese game in beta test called "Before Crisis: Final Fantasy 7", offered to the small community of people that own one of five particular NTT DoCoMo 900i series phone models. The article describes how the game is played, but this really caught my eye:

"One feature of the phone game is the "Materia Generator," which allows you to use your phone's camera to somehow create Materia to be used in the game. Unfortunately, not even the official site goes into any detail whatsoever, but it sounds at least momentarily diverting, if nothing else".

emily | 2:00 PM | How people and businesses are using cameraphones |
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