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Mscape
Mscape was a mobile media gaming platform developed by Hewlett-Packard that could be used to create location-based games. The development of Mscape was discontinued (and its website mscapers.com shut down) on March 31, 2010. The Mscape platform was flexible. HP encouraged developers to use Mscape to create not just games, but also informational guides to points of interest, imaginative stories about places, and practical information about worksites. Mscape made a player's GPS location an element of the gameplay. Events in a game were triggered by a player's location, and the player interacted with a game by moving from place to place. Mscape was used to create mediascapes, interactive experiences made up of video, audio, images, and text. Mscape stored the digital media files in a structure that associates them with positions from a GPS system. Players could play mediascapes on a Windows Mobile device, such as a mobile phone or a PDA that is GPS-enabled. As players move daround, the device sensed their position and activated the appropriate media files.
Article summary
Mscape was a mobile media gaming platform developed by Hewlett-Packard that could be used to create location-based games. The development of Mscape was discontinued (and its website mscapers.com shut down) on March 31, 2010. The Mscape platform was flexible. HP encouraged developers to use Mscape to create not just games, but also informational guides to points of interest, imaginative stories about places, and practical information about worksites. Mscape made a player's GPS location an element of the gameplay. Events in a game were triggered by a player's location, and the player interacted with a game by moving from place to place. Mscape was used to create mediascapes, interactive experiences made up of video, audio, images, and text. Mscape stored the digital media files in a structure that associates them with positions from a GPS system. Players could play mediascapes on a Windows Mobile device, such as a mobile phone or a PDA that is GPS-enabled. As players move daround, the device sensed their position and activated the appropriate media files.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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