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A few months before its five ski resorts open for the season, the Colorado-basedVail Resortshas unveiled a preview of something calledEpic Mix, a set of Web and mobile apps based on skiers activity as lfree scanner frequencies Vail Resorts unveils ski slope geolocation systemogged by radio frequency (RF) readers around its resorts.
A skier can turn off RF functionality entirely if he or she so chooses, the company explained.
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Katz said that he hopes Epic Mix will give a digital ce to the experience, the very real experience that people are having day in and day out on our mountains. Unfortunately, the RF scanners are currently only located on entrances to ski lifts, so it cant precisely track exactly which mountains an individual is skiing on, though Katz said that it may be improved in future years--potentially along with real check-in rewards for frequent skiers (so, for example, if you make it down that double black diamond your first scotch on the rocks is free). Also out there is the possibility that the technology could be licensed to other resorts, meaning thatthe geolocation crazemay be enjoying packed-powder prominence very soon.
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Not to mention that many ski resorts are not exactly hotbeds of high-quality cell phone service, and checking in can be a pain when youre wearing thick ski gear and dont want to accidentally drop youriPhoneoff a chair lift.
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free scanner frequencies Vail Resorts unveils ski slope geolocation system,Itll go live when the first of Vails resorts, Keystone, opens for the season in early November. Vail Resorts season passes and lift tickets are already RF-enabled, but with Epic Mix, interested skiers canunlock pins in the manner of Foursquare badges, get ranked on a vertical-feet leaderboard, post all manner of ski-related updates to Facebook and Twitter, and--via a mobile app--see their friends activity on the slopes in real time so that it gets way easier to meet up for beers at the lodge. Theres also a kid-oriented site for children under 13, which limits sharing to the kids parents and has its own set of kid-friendly pins.
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