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Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning
SoupIsGoodFood_42 writes "A company called GeoVector has come up with a system that lets you point out a location. They say it could be used to get info on buildings and objects. E.G. pointing your mobile device at a movie theater could tell you what's on. They've also developed a "real world" version of Doom. So don't be surprised if you're in Japan early next year and see people running holding their cellphone/PDA like a gun."
Jeff Bezos has an exclusive patent on pointing at stuff.
Great, now as if people don't think I'm geeky enough I can run around pointing my cell phone at shit expecting to Zap it.....
I am an oragami folding ninja.
I want the devices to be shaped like guns, just to piss all those anti-violence-in-videogames people off. "I'm not REALLY shooting them! I'm just aiming a realistic looking gun at them and pulling the trigger, thus gaining rewards in-game! Training me to be a killer indeed..."
I am a filthy pirate.
It would be better if you could point it at hot girls and it would search the Internet for pictures of them without any clothes on.
Oh yes! my prayers have been recieved! I can now look like a total geek-fool in front of many people by shooting them with my mobile phone wee!!! This is going to be a good thing for the geek culture though. Instead of fat geeks, we'll get super thin, fast reaction, quick thinking, tactical geeks. The superhumans of tomorrow!
OMG OMG OMG WTF OMG WTF BBQ STFU RTFM, OMFG OMG OMG OMG ROFL LMAO OMG WTF STFU ROFLMAO
haha, pretty soon you'd start tuning out the word "boob"
E.G. pointing your mobile device at a movie theater could tell you what's on
Or you could look at the sign.
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
It had better have a grapple, and a rocket launcher. (of course, said rocket launcher would only hurt humans, and not damage buildings in any way)
I prefer the current batch of phones that let me play Carmageddon!
But seriously, is it just me, or does this sound TOTALLY lame? Maybe it's one of those things you have to see demonstrated in person before you think it's cool.
"Ask me about Loom"
to what extent gaming invades phones. Are we going to be running around playing games with messages like "You killed Tony S (mobile)"? Assuming gaming wins out it'll be more like "incoming call from 1337 k!lla"?
Excellent. Affordable cruise missiles is just what I need to deal with that pesty deadbeat of a neighbour I have.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
I'd rather have a jamming device to stop stupid people from running around my house and "camping" behind my garage. Also, hearing some 14 year old yell out "OMFG YUO AWN* FAGGOT!!!" in my backyard at 07:00 is probably NOT the best way to get my day started.
* = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.
Hate me!
First we have cellphones that spend money, now we have phones that can identify stuff when they're pointed at it?
One day I'll not be able to find my phone cos it's nicked my car keys, stolen my money and gone out with its mates on the piss at a nightclub.
It appears as though you are trying to stare at that blonde woman's breasts. Would you like me to...
A) Order some pornographic material to relieve your urges?
B) Zoom in?
C) Shut the fuck up and let you carry on ogling?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
it's called lasertag.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
"A 22-year old college student was fatally shot by a police officer mistaking the student's cell phone for a gun. The student was apparently playing the Real-Life (TM) DOOM (TM) game that is the rage on college campuses world-wide."
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
I'm imagining an airport lounge full of people in business suits with thick goggle mounted displays and black gloves mounted with 3-D mouse, wagging their heads and waving their hands around.
Hmm, *Note to self: Next killing spree, paint 9mm bright orange.
Why not fork?
Don't we already have 'real life Doom'? I thought that's what all those reservists were playing overseas...
Kevin Fox
Will also end up with guy suing you with proof of you staring at their wife's ass =) I CAN wait for it to happen.
Al Gore claims prior art to Jeff Bezos' claim. Have a nice day!
There is a system similar to what you describe at the Exploratorium in S.F. It puts up an image, and tracks where your eyes are looking, then replays what you were looking at. Pretty cool. I was there a year ago or so with my girlfriend, and purposely concentrated on every female in the images (she hit me).
My Nokia BFG should arrive any day now...
Then make "real life" versions of all the guns in Doom, like the Super Shotgun, etc. Then, make up a video game where you can go around with these guns and shoot at real-life people. There are no real life bullets; no projectiles to fire... but if you shoot at someone, a packet (the Ping of Death ) is sent through the Internet to the chip in their body, based on GPS coordinates, as measured by the gun, that instructs the chip to kill that process, er, person.
This technology would be useful for enterprise integration applications, military, government, the video game market, and for inventory tracking in commercial stores, like Walmart, which will be implementing RFID in its products by 2005: If you jack a product from their store, a ping of death immediately kills you as you exit their store. This takes place even if you paid for the product, but the clerk who rang you up didn't properly demagnetize it. A law called the Consumer Safety and Inventory Convenience Act (similar to the DMCA but more restrictive for consumers and more flexible for corporations) would be passed to facilitate the use of this technology to, uh, make things more convenient for consumers. Also, someone could make up an e-Voodoo website, like the one in the insurance commercial, where you can go online, type any person's name, and stick virtual pins (implemented by the chip in their body, of course) into any part of their body to give them agonizing pain, once again, through the Internet.
Yup, this technology is definitely going to be useful.
I've always thought this would be a cool application: if someone cut you off in traffic, point at them and give them an "asshole point." If someone got enough asshole points, they could get a ticket or some other penalty. This technology looks like it could make that possible.
Of course there would have to be abuse safeguards. (Like X points available to give out per month, adn you couldn't give the same person more than n points per year, etc...) But this looks like it makes "asshole points" a reality.
... during the episode where Steven Spielburg was changing all of his movies to show walkie talkies and cell phones instead of guns and rifles.
I can just imagine seeing a bunch of people in the office doing this, since our Corporate IT banned playing Unreal Tournament after hours.
Then again, there's always paintball equipment!