Table Tennis Anyone?

March 8, 2006 – People everywhere are spending illogical amounts of time playing games on their mobile phones... it is becoming fashionable, both for fanatic gamers and occasional users. Witness them on the train, at the airport and in their cars, but why are they still restricted to pressing of cursors and arrow keys, moving from left to right, up and down?

However, a new generation of users is coming soon! The confusing synchronized movements and the boring digiting will be soon replaced by natural movements and by the gamer's look on the display.

Pingis is now available: the world's first multiplayer virtual table tennis with camera-driven interaction. It enables people to play table tennis over Bluetooth connection, using the camera phones as rackets! The phone's movement is detected by real time feature detection from the phone's camera view.

The mobile gamer will play with natural movements, shifting his hand from one side to the other. He will follow the direction of the ball on the screen, as if he was competing on a real ping pong table! And the match is both exciting and realistic!

Pingis game modes are both single and two-player over Bluetooth connection. Features include: matches over GPRS – i.e. two people long distances from each other playing a match; other game formats to come.

Pingis is implemented on Symbian OS/Series 60. Other platforms will soon be introduced.

"Pingis" – says Davide Macchi , President and CEO of Mobile Solutions "is the result of our close co-operation with VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland. Our partnership with VTT has already turned to high-end technology solutions and services, which will be able to capture the attention of a mobile market, now interested only in substantially innovative applications which should have the ability to entertain and bring something unseen to people."

For more information visit www.mobilesolutions.it

SOURCE Mobile Solutions