Developer Wi2P Entertainment uses Android’s ability to control a phone’s GPS receiver to create a new Augmented Reality game called Wi-Fi Army.

Augmented Reality is kind of like reverse Virtual-Reality: rather than entering a virtual world, you stay in the real world, but with virtual features overlaid. In the case of Wi-Fi Army, you engage in a first person shooter game that takes place in the real world. You find your opponent via your phone’s GPS and Wi-Fi receivers and Google Maps, and shoot him via the camera phone.

The game works out whether you’ve hit your opponent or not by recognizing the picture of him when you upload it to the Wi-Fi Army web server. Of course, he must have registered with the service first, and also indicated that he’s happy to play the game before you go around shooting him!

500 beta signups per city are mentioned on their website but the actual signup form or further information isn’t available at this time.  But in the meantime, it’s comforting to know they are working on further features such as GPS user status (you can be off the map for potential frags when you are at the office or something), VoIP, and WiFi battle engine.  So stay tuned as we report more on Wifi army when more information and beta signups are available!

[via WiFiarmy.com]