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The next frontier for video games could be internal organs. Players of the Guts Game must fight off a virtual parasite by causing changes to their gut, as measured by an ingested sensor.
Small sensors such as those used in FitBits have already gamified exercise, so Zhuying Li and Floyd Mueller at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia wanted to explore what type of games might be possible with ingestible sensors. These pills can capture video, or detect chemicals, temperature, pH or pressure. …