Ghostwire is not only a haunted media game, but a mobile augmented reality haunted media game.
It's like a Gothic Pokemon, apparently, but invades the space around your mobile device.
Ghostwire is a collection- and adventure game, where you use your handheld device to communicate with ghosts. Your portable device is used as a portal to the astral plane, and helps you find and collect ghosts that exist all around you. In your quest you use real tools, such as the built-in camera and microphone, as well as abstract ones like a "frequency modulator" for tuning in ghosts. Once you find the spirits, you document them and find out why they haunt our world. They can also give you riddles to solve. Ultimately, you can help them to find peace.
As I keep telling people: AR is one huge revolution we haven't even begun to think through.
(via Bruce Sterling)
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