I can tell you this much: ARGs are definitely on the radar screen for the telco companies. We (my unit, but also our competitors) have been building general-purpose blades for edge routers. A couple of years ago, the foreseeable applications were mostly encryption related, but now ARGs are something for which network operators think they need computing resources close to the cell tower.
It's a big jump from Halting State to having Verizon (i.e., the ultimate in corporate dinosaurs) wanting a road map for location-based massively-multiplayer games. I'm trying not to be disappointed that the early examples are likely to be things like soda-bottle cap sweepstakes...
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Date: 2011-02-18 03:48 pm (UTC)It's a big jump from Halting State to having Verizon (i.e., the ultimate in corporate dinosaurs) wanting a road map for location-based massively-multiplayer games. I'm trying not to be disappointed that the early examples are likely to be things like soda-bottle cap sweepstakes...
[By the way, none of this is inside information.]