Real-world Oriented Entertainment Applications

Future network (hereafter universal network) will serve as a software infrastructure for ubiquitous computing applications where diverse components such as sensors, small devices, computers, services, information, and people are dynamically integrated to provide applications. Applications on universal network will merge real- and virtualworlds using various sensors and actuators. With this, we believe that new types of entertainment applications that can interact with and influence on mental or emotional parts of humans will become one of killer applications. In universal network, applications are required to be adaptive to the dynamically changing situation of users ’ computing environments or service context so that applications can tune their components to best support users. A software infrastructure for universal network should support such adaptable and composable applications. 2. Examples of key applications Examples of new types of universal network applications are described below. 2.1. Spontaneous community