Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Technology in the wild (25 May 2004) If you've seen someone acting strangely on the streets of Manchester recently, don't worry - they're probably participating in one of Professor Steve Benford's latest experiments. Uncle Roy All Around You is a computer game with a difference - designed to be played on the city streets as well as online anywhere in the world. Street players use hand-held computers to navigate through a city in their 60-minute search for the mysterious 'Uncle Roy'. Simultaneously, online players move through a virtual map of the same area, tracking street players and sending them clues. Rather like hide and seek but with web cams and text messages. Uncle Roy is the latest collaboration between Benford's Mixed Reality Lab and the radical art group Blast Theory. Their previous works Desert Rain and Can You See Me Now? both met with critical acclaim, and Uncle Roy pushes the concept of merging real and virtual worlds even further. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art23.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Thou shalt not steal     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy