RFID used in jail-break game
p2p news / p2pnet: In an eerie, unintentional foreshadowing of what will almost certainly come to pass in the near future, some players in La Fuga, a Spanish interactive game, use RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips to track others as they try to break out of Mazzinia, a high-security jail.
“Named La Fuga (The Breakout), the game opened this month at a former bank not far from the Real Madrid Stadium in northern Madrid,” says the RFID Journal. “The facility can host up to 300 players at a time, each of whom tries to solve quizzes and pass through different obstacles in order to escape.”
Each player gets a specially designed PDA to be worn on the wrist.
Between it and the strap, “is a passive RFID tag with a unique ID number used to locate and identify each player during the game,” says the story, adding the PDA communicates with the game system through wireless technology and, “RFID interrogators (readers) placed in doorways and in other areas of the game rooms enable the application to detect a player’s location …”
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RFID Journal – RFID Helps Gamers Break Out of Jail, November 15, 2005
