• [itvt], Monday, January 4, 2010 11:38 AM

A Google patent application titled "Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos" filed last February, but just recently come to light, seems primarily to deal with annotations on videos which can be utilized for creating interactive games with videos. The patent hints at the potential YouTube could have as a gaming site, hosting games overlaid on videos.

Said Bnet, late last week, "The games could be built atop videos submitted to a hosting site, which makes it sound as though Google plans to extend YouTube site into an associated gaming site." Or it "could potentially open game creation to anyone with enough imagination, a video camera, an editing suite, and the ability to keep track of the video time line."

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