There are multiple initiatives in making cell phone as a heart of digital world. Indeed, it is small, and almost always together with the owner. You can use it to control your PC, play games, or turn on your coffee machine.
Let's see some of todays applications of cellphone and computer communication.
Roccat Power Grid
Roccat allows us to pair our cell phone and computer at first place. You can start applications, and control state and health of you PC. Load second-screen games.
Roccat builds applicaitions themselves, and they hier :) Simple gamer has access for setting custom macroses for gaming. What is interesting at this place, is if i am able to come anywhere (computer club, or my friends home) and have access to those so-called "profiles" ? Armaggeddon gaming mice allow this kind of feature. For sure - you can share your profiles, but this is another approach.
Roccat puts this software as opposed to devices (like Armaggeddon or Mad Catz R.A.T. and of course S.T.R.I.K.E. 7, maybe others...).
From tutorials on their website we can learn that we can create our own grids with predefined functionality. You can open websites, launch applications, and read RSS feeds, mails and skype messages. Last functionaly looks weird, because you have all this features on your cell phone itself.
Biggest customization looks to be a macro creation. This allows you to record keyboard sequencies and then repeat them in games. Same customization can be found in... mice :) this looks weird but true. Armaggeddon AlienCraft-II G13 and Mad Catz R.A.T. 9 have these functions.
Among interesting facts - their HTML5 uses flash to communicate with cell phone. To initiate connection they propose clients to use external discovery mechanizm, which collects local IPs and public IPs of users to match those. Basically, you just have to turn on your phone and a game - and you are ready to play!
For customizations you get ability to change so-called layouts on cell phone and create buttons. Both are based on images, which are pushed from your game to the device to display. There are also serveral predefined control modes. Also, you can get access to accelerometer.
In addition, if you start working with brass monkey - you get opportunity to use their games monitization. You can get payed for goods, game time, or entire game purchase.
For customization purposes, you can set background image of cell-phone and get access to touch events, and accelerometer of mobile device. Game can also request mobile device to vibrate.
Wand is very new, it comes with 14th version of flash related software.
Roccat puts this software as opposed to devices (like Armaggeddon or Mad Catz R.A.T. and of course S.T.R.I.K.E. 7, maybe others...).
From tutorials on their website we can learn that we can create our own grids with predefined functionality. You can open websites, launch applications, and read RSS feeds, mails and skype messages. Last functionaly looks weird, because you have all this features on your cell phone itself.
Biggest customization looks to be a macro creation. This allows you to record keyboard sequencies and then repeat them in games. Same customization can be found in... mice :) this looks weird but true. Armaggeddon AlienCraft-II G13 and Mad Catz R.A.T. 9 have these functions.
Brass Monkey
This effort is primiary built for online game developers. When you work on your game - you can use brass monkey system to allow gamers to play with their cell phones. It supports HTML5, Unity3D and flash.Among interesting facts - their HTML5 uses flash to communicate with cell phone. To initiate connection they propose clients to use external discovery mechanizm, which collects local IPs and public IPs of users to match those. Basically, you just have to turn on your phone and a game - and you are ready to play!
For customizations you get ability to change so-called layouts on cell phone and create buttons. Both are based on images, which are pushed from your game to the device to display. There are also serveral predefined control modes. Also, you can get access to accelerometer.
In addition, if you start working with brass monkey - you get opportunity to use their games monitization. You can get payed for goods, game time, or entire game purchase.
Adobe Wand
This is latest effort from Adobe. You get cell phone application together with Air Runtime for Android or iOS. Connection with wand-enabled game is done using PIN, which allows flash game to find your cell phone.For customization purposes, you can set background image of cell-phone and get access to touch events, and accelerometer of mobile device. Game can also request mobile device to vibrate.
Wand is very new, it comes with 14th version of flash related software.
