Legendary Games has been selected by the technology strategy board to lead a study exploring the feasibility of creating an Augmented Reality Intelligent Agent game (ARIA) the playing of which will directly reduce energy consumption in the home. The game application will be connected to the output of a British Gas home energy monitoring meter.
ARIA will use a novel computer game interface with real time inputs to facilitate monitoring, control and communications of data and reward players virtually for their real world behaviour. ARIA will be playable on any device that has access to the internet PC, smart phone, etc.
The application will also capture the energy consumption habits and the location of the user during consumption. This will be essential information in the future development of power distribution in a time of increased distribution generation. The intended output is a tech demo to demonstrate the feasibility of a game delivering sustainable engagement and usable data to aid future power distribution challenges.
This is almost as creepy as Kinect…
Ewan Lamont CEO of Legendary Games: (Word for word, how’s that!?) “This is an exciting project for Legendary Games. Where gamification has been used before for energy users to compare and compete against each other consumption has dropped by up to 10%. We have the right partners and have the right technology to enable consumers to deliver real cost and environmental savings and have fun in the process.”
So just who is Ewan Lamont? He’s the conservative MP for Nottingham, Nottingham being the host of several big game companies and of “Event City” a gaming week, dedicated to sucking if last year is anything to go off. So fear younglings, 1984 is in motion! (For those who don’t keep an eye on UK policies there’s been talk of the conservative government watching our internet movement.)
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