QR Codes in Canada?

Slashdot is running a story on a Toronto company trying to bring QR codes to Canada.
Is this the start of North American QR adoption?
As we've found in our attempts to read codes in Japanese magazines, our phones will have to improve their camera's resolution for this to work.

Grant Proposal

Some things to consider for our grant proposal / conference submission:

1) Budget. Do we want to buy phones and sim cards to use? Do we want to be paid for hours worked? Do we want to include living expenses? Payment for testers? Tickets to SIGGRAPH?

2) Do we want to get some money for this, or present it at a conference? Or Both?

3) Assume we got to the stage where we have a working game and tried it out with the Lower Manhattan setting (our current goal, yes?). Where would we go from there? How do we advance this thing?

This NSF grant makes sense, more or less, for our project.

SIGGRAPH 08 might be interesting as well.

Play Tech Photo

Testing the Game

Playtech offered us the opportunity to test out Encrypted City in a small-scale deployment.
The code was finished at roughly 2:00am Saturday morning, then some more time was spent getting it to work on actual phones. SydeWynder, the software we're using to run the Encrypted City game server off a phone, features an emulator mode. When I was writing the code on my computer, I only had the emulator to test it with. Real phones presented some added twists that had to be addressed, not to mention we had to make all the phones had the barcode reader properly installed.


Once play commenced, in two teams, all sorts of interesting bugs popped up. Considering there had been no formal testing with the phones beforehand, this wasn't much of a surprise. We have some work to do before this sucker is running smoothly.

all of the 8 questions and answers

qr code location: next to elevator along hall way.
1.text in the word you find along the walls of 10th floor hallway
word:
answer:
superkalafragelisticexpeealedocious

qr code location: entrance to 10th floor lab room
2.What word is stuck under the wooden tables on the 10th floor?
a. noo
b. ono
c. non
d. onn
answer: b


qr code location: on the whiteboard in room 1013
3.What does MFADT mean?
multiple choice, please text the letter of the correct answer
a. musical fun and dance team
b. ministry of future advanced design terminology
c. master of fine arts in design and technology
d. mundane formulas advertising dictionary /thesaurus
e. multiple formations of automated depression therapy
answer: c

qr code location: at the end of the hall way from room 1006
4.Count the number of EXIT sign on the 10th floor.
answer:9

qr code location:stair G
5.(Go to stairway G on the 10th floor.) Look out the window,how many stories is the tallest building you see?
answer: 18

qr code location: staircase by elevator
6.How many stairs are there between the 10th and 11th floor?
answer: 18

qr code location:in 10th floor lab
7.Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAT_BmqIdo
How many messages did the group get in the video?
answer: 1

qr code location: behind the door of room 1005
8.How many faces can you find in the picture from the following URL?
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimiQZCguDoLo0zA2vBb-CZecVwrRlszqpmwYla67-s8tUNI6vQ7Uugw0F_HR154R4PKkc1GeAVK8Dp-oN0uJ5IkmTxdCgd0BpeeyD5WKgCjoIcCZ8cfRT7P1RWsMq35kpSE4MdCTLTfC4D/s1600-h/HowManyFaces.jpg
answer: 10

8 questions some answers

qr code location: next to elevator along hall way.
1.text in the word you find along the walls of 10th floor hallway
word:
answer:
superkalafragelisticexpeealedocious

qr code location: entrance to 10th floor lab room
3.What word is stuck under the wooden tables on the 10th floor?
a. noo
b. ono
c. non
d. onn
answer: b


qr code location:anywhere
4.What does MFADT mean?
multiple choice, please text the letter of the correct answer
a. musical fun and dance team
b. ministry of future advanced design terminology
c. master of fine arts in design and technology
d. mundane formulas advertising dictionary /thesaurus
e. multiple formations of automated depression therapy
answer: c

qr code location:any exit
5.Count the number of EXIT sign on the 10th floor.
answer:?

qr code location:stair G
6.(Go to stairway G on the 10th floor.) Look out the window,how many stories is the tallest building you see?
answer:?

qr code location: staircase by elevator
7.How many stairs are there between the 10th and 11th floor?
answer:?

qr code location:in 10th floor lab
8.Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAT_BmqIdo
How many messages did the group get in the video?
answer:?

qr code location: lab wall
10.How many faces can you find in the picture on the wall?
answer:?

10 Finalized questions

qr code location: next to elevator along hall way.
1.text in the word you find along the walls of 10th floor hallway
word:
superkalafragelisticexpeealedocious

qr code location:anywhere
2.the 1980 movie fame is based on what new york city high school?
a. Lafayette
b. La Guardia
c. La Salle
d. Loyola

qr code location: entrance to 10th floor lab room
3.What word is stuck under the wooden tables on the 10th floor?
a. noo
b. ono
c. non
d. onn

qr code location:anywhere
4.What does MFADT mean?
multiple choice, please text the letter of the correct answer
a. musical fun and dance team
b. ministry of future advanced design terminology
c. master of fine arts in design and technology
d. mundane formulas advertising dictionary /thesaurus
e. multiple formations of automated depression therapy

qr code location:any exit
5.Count the number of EXIT sign on the 10th floor.

qr code location:stair G
6.(Go to stairway G on the 10th floor.) Look out the window,how many stories is the tallest building you see?

qr code location: staircase by elevator
7.How many stairs are there between the 10th and 11th floor?

qr code location:in 10th floor lab
8.Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAT_BmqIdo
How many messages did the group get in the video?

qr code location:anywhere
9.Whats inside this box?

qr code location: lab wall
10.How many faces can you find in the picture on the wall?