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Gaming Meet Biometrics. Biometrics Meet Gaming.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

As a way to gauge the efficency of in-game advertisements, the research firm Bunnyfoot has devised a biometrics solution that monitors retinal movement as well as other physiological characteristics. Games are increasingly using in-game advertisements as a way to offset development costs, and testing the efficacy of those ads is something that ad agencies have been grappling with for some time. Apparently Bunnyfoot has provided a solution. Click here for the full article. [end] 

Gaming Partners International announced that it has received three orders to supply casino chips and plaques totaling just under $4.7 million.

The company will produce approximately 700,000 custom Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G) premium casino chips for Venetian Macau Limited’s Sands Macau and Sands Cotai properties. GPI will also produce over 80,000 B&G RFID plaques to Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM)’s Grand Lisboa property.

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BIO-key International announced that it has partnered with fellow biometrics developer Fulcrum Biometrics to bring a new mobile solution to the City Clerk’s Office in Sacramento, Calif.

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Nintendo has released a new trailer for Rayman showing how NFC will be used to enhance gameplay on the upcoming Wii U game system.

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Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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Canadian company Blackbird International Corp. has announced its acquisition of Insight ID, a real-time authentication service that verifies a person through a Web browser and Internet connection.

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Microsoft Corp. has received a patent for a biometric-reading, pressure sensitive surface that can be used on a video game controller to enable user login by touch.

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