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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."
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We have something like this in the UK. It's not exactly what you're after but it definitely has the potential to become it.
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You might be interested in reading about the MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 specifications. Neither are codecs, but the two new formats are intended to be metadata formats that store all sorts of information about an audio/video stream. I believe they both use XML, and are intended to be very detailed. They intend this to be paired with MPEG-2, so it would probably be supported by future digital TV streams and also DVD's. MPEG-4 streams on the net could also use it.
This was the rage in the 80s. Basically you had a target. You went around with a rubber sticky dart gun hunting your mark. If you "killed" him, you then went after his target. And so on, until one was left.
Then one day the inevitable happened. A guy was pinting his very real dart gun at someone at night, and a security officer blew him away.
Or, gamers could just discover paintball..
Ummmm Japan has a game called airsoft. It has replica's of pretty much any gun available in the world (and if it's not available, build it yourself) this game is VERY popular in Japan. The guns fire small plastic BBs that hurt less than paintballs (but fly farther and are way more accurate.) I know a bunch of people who play it in the states (like half the number of people that play paintball play airsoft) but in Japan it is much more popular.
I've even seen a few anime's where some of the main characters would play airsoft (like all the time and they'd always talk about it in all the episodes, not like one time and forget about it.) I don't think their's a show in america where any of the characters play paintball. Besides, I don't think their's a gamer I know who never heard of paintball And 90% of the people who play games like CS love airsoft (after they find out it exists.) You can check out some of the guns and info here
Redwolf Airsoft
Or here is one of the best airsoft stores in the world (with it's main store located in Japan)
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