Loading ...Motion-Sensing Games Come to Japanese Cell Phones
NTT DoCoMo Inc. will begin selling in May three cell phones that offer motion sensitive gaming like that possible with Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii games console.
In a boxing game users can throw punches or duck, and their movements are picked up by the phone’s camera. In another game, the phone can be tilted in different directions to guide an on-screen ball through a maze.
“Traditionally in trains youngsters would be staring down at their phones playing games but that is going to change dramatically,” said Takeshi Natsuno, senior vice president of NTT DoCoMo and managing director of its multimedia services department. He was speaking on Monday at a Tokyo news conference held to unveil the phones, raising the prospect of people on trains getting much more animated as they attempt to respond to on-screen challengers.
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