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Technology

Shot while gaming

By Barry Fox

21 August 1999

Video cameras concealed behind mirrors could help to personalise arcade video
games by allowing the machine to remember each player. Interval Research of Palo
Alto, California, proposes using a pair of video cameras behind a two-way mirror
to capture a 3D image of unsuspecting gamers (W0 99/6940). When they come back
to play again, the image is compared with recorded images. This, say the
inventors, lets a player pick up a game where they left off. But, they warn,
such technology could also be used to keep tabs on computer users.

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