An Apple patent application made public this week suggests some of the potential for gaming on the iPhone. Titled Interactive Gaming with Co-Located, Networked Direction and Location Aware Devices, the filing depicts an augmented reality system primarily combining the input of the iPhone's camera and motion sensors, including the accelerometer, GPS, compass and gyroscope. A gamer's location in the simulation could be determined and broadcast using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or cellular transmitters.
