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US 2020/0206629 A1Published application
Location-based video gaming with anchor points
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsJoshua Alexander Bridge, Robert Frederick Ford, Eunice Lee, Nathan Lutz, Michal Tadeusz Madej, Paul Reiche, III
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Abstract
A mobile video game uses real world anchor points in providing for video game play which includes virtual elements. The real world anchor points may be specified in terms of a geographic coordinate system, and game play may be based on mobile device presence at or about the anchor points.
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A method for a mobile video game, comprising:
- determining if a first mobile computing device is at a predetermined location;
- determining at least one virtual element associated with a predetermined direction of view from the predetermined location;
- in response to determining that the first mobile computing device as at the predetermined location, providing information for display by the first mobile computing device of the at least one virtual element in conjunction with real world elements of an image of a scene in the predetermined direction of view from the predetermined location;
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- providing for virtual engagement with the at least one virtual element or the real world elements.
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