N-Gage to make use of your phone's camera and GPS capabilities

NokNok interviewed Will Shen, the head of Production for N-Gage in North America who revealed that "the Finnish company intends to develop games which will make use of the imaging and GPS capabilities on a handset.

Shen explained an N-Gage game could potentially use clever techniques to interpret the histogram extracted from a photograph to interact with characters in a game. Shen’s example being, “a monster you could feed photographs”, presumably requiring you to take shots of appropriate real-life items while you’re out and about.

According to ta href="http://noknok.tv/news/exclusive-n-gage-camera-games-and-gps-action/">NokNok, Shen also said that Nokia is seriously looking at location-based gaming and stressed that the concept is not a gimmick, but one which focuses on innovation."

[via Asia C/net]

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