Doom but not gloom on city streets

Japanese mobile phone users could be taking to the streets early next year to play shoot-it-up computer game Doom - thanks to technology developed in New Zealand. "San Francisco mobile technology company GeoVector, which has its advanced development lab in Christchurch and a concept development team in Auckland, has developed a "real world" version of the classic computer game. It lets mobile phone users battle it out with one another on the streets, using their phones to zap opponents and the screens on their mobiles to view the Doom environment."

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