Mobile devices are becoming increasingly pervasive and, with high speed internet becoming more common in these devices, there is greater opportunity for rich media consumption in pervasive contexts. For these reasons, we have chosen to focus our social network on mobile devices. Pervasiveness The introduction of mobile devices has bought about a “post-pc” era of innovation. Smartphones, for example, are… Read more →
In the last post, we explained that we were making a major change to our idea, from gaming, to a virtual world social network. The virtual world would encourage people of similar interests, who may not know each other, to socialise. This post will offer a brief proposal of how this will work. Entering the virtual world The innovative aspect… Read more →
During the last few weeks, Team Orion have been pursuing the idea of a gaming social network. However, our analysis of existing social networks has revealed a large number of gaming social networks already available. The core team had a discussion today about the viability of GameX within this niche, and have decided that it has little unique experience to offer… Read more →
