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Tennis fans will soon be able to play less energetic matches – using camera-phones as racquets. AR Tennis, a downloadable game under development by software engineer Anders Henrysson based in New Zealand, links two phones via a Bluetooth connection and allows them to hit a virtual tennis ball to each other. The players sit opposite each other with their phones’ cameras pointed at a piece of paper between them, which acts as a common reference point to orientate the court on the screens.

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