Contributions of Sensor Networks to Improve Gaming Experience

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved from primary military applications into everyday life. Sensor networks rapidly began spreading to civil applications like environment monitoring, education, intrusion detection, motion sensing, gaming experience, among others. Wireless sensor networks are thought to lead to a world plenty of smart objects in the future. In addition, gaming is a widely recognized part of our cultural landscape and as old as our human ancestors. The earliest computers were very slow and the interaction with the user was rudimental. In the early 40´s, computers evolved, and programmers started to develop new virtual worlds and surprising ways of interaction between the user and the machine. Following the growing popularity of computer games and the common use of wireless sensor networks, we survey on how both technologies can be combined together to provide a better gaming experience.