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Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning

Posted by timothy on from the but-i-was-born-with-this-ability dept.

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."

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  1. Won’t work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeff Bezos has an exclusive patent on pointing at stuff.

  2. Suggestion by AntiOrganic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Suggestion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What if you accidentally pointed it at that fat geeky guy next to the hot girl?

      Oh wait, fat geeky guys would never be next to a hot girl. My bad.

  3. Real Life Doom??? by Obscenity · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Real Life Doom??? by AntiOrganic · · Score: 5, Funny

      But you can already become super-thin and embarass yourself at the same time by playing Dance Dance Revolution in public.

  4. Re:Virtual Light by iosmart · · Score: 5, Funny

    haha, pretty soon you'd start tuning out the word "boob"

  5. Silly by giminy · · Score: 5, Funny

    E.G. pointing your mobile device at a movie theater could tell you what's on

    Or you could look at the sign.

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