Yahoo! Turns SF. Bus Stops into Connected Game Portals
Yahoo! has come up with an interesting and novel use of fixed space to turn San Francisco bus shelters into interactive gaming terminals. By connecting twenty shared terminal sites together, people can play against not only different games but different parts of the city, I gather for neighborhood bragging rights.
One could envision not only the interactive screens as pictured above, but also live video between of all players along with the ability to enter peoples names and email, this for future game offerings. Play a game, get a coupon from GameStop for a discount off a future purchase.
Yahoo! needs to do more then play with the technology for the sake of experimenting and take some bold moves by partnering with companies like GameStop, Starbucks or perhaps McDonalds, who has been active of late in New York City making some of its restaurants friendly for WiFi users..
Gaming locations in San Francisco
Yahoo! was innovative in the past with their technology platform like FinanceVision, this back in 2000, the question is if this is just an experiment or the company has a business idea to leverage the excitement in the gaming market coupled with location based gaming?
