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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. Virtual Light by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I want it built into my sun glasses, so I if I focus on an object for 250 ms, it pops up a little yellow box telling me what it is.

    1. Re:Virtual Light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Embarassingly enough, this happened to me. In my fourth year of university, I took a class in Human-Computer Interaction. One of the class requirements was that I take part in one of the professor's projects which was working on a camera system that tracks where the human eye is looking on a computer screen.

      One of the test items was to test the usability of a web page. The professor noted that there was a lot of focus on the "boob region" of the female body. It was bad because if you focused on an area for a few milliseconds, it registered as a red mark on the webpage and you could see a buildup on the chests. Ahh, good times.

  2. Hmmm, this sounds like... by BeerSlurpy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This sounds like the rangefinding/GPS binoculars the military uses to read off bombing coordinates now.

    Im surprised how fast it came to the civilian market. With affordable cruise missle technology available soon, ordinairy citizens will be able to carry out their own starcraft style airstrikes (minus the cute red dot and the mushroom cloud of course, but who knows).

  3. Just when we thought we were safe... by mgcsinc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now public schools will again have a rationale for prohibiting cell phones in school!

  4. Just great by agent+dero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is what we need, lots of sketchy looking people running around aiming there cell-phones like they are real weapons, am I the only one seeing a problem with this.
    "Put the money in the bag or get fragged Mr. Johnson!"

    Just one great idea after the other.
    In fact, this is probably from the same folks who make water pistols that look EXACTLY like real guns.

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  5. ArQuake by rhysweatherley · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Doom on an iPAQ? Give me a break. For "real life" gaming, the ArQuake guys are years ahead:

    http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/arquake/

  6. Re:Suggestion by gantrep · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, an intelligent image search engine like that would be really cool. Not just for finding people like you mentioned, but say for example you just bought some antique "thing" at a garage sale. You don't know what it's called or what it's for, but it's old. So you snap a pic and an image engine identifies it or at least comes up with a lot of stuff that looks similar. Completely unfeasable today, but someday it will be possible and really sweet. Closest thing to it I think I remember a /. article about how compressable an image is with gzip is an indicator as to whether it is biological or not.

  7. Re:So?? by gantrep · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I do agree with you, but I guess some parents feel differently. Found this article about how great cells in schools are. A few good points, but I still think they are too distracting and annoying.

  8. Cell I can understand, but in a camera would RULE by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can understand this being put into a cellphone, and I can see the utility of it.

    However, what I want is a nice 10 Mpixel camera with this in it - record when the shot was taken, where, and what the bearing was.

    Add that and perhaps a short, low-rate voice note, and maintaining my photo collection would become a great deal easier.

    OT: If you have a photo collection, do those who come after you a favor and LABEL your pictures - date, names of the people in them, event, and why you felt this was important enough to take a picture of. I had to go through both my mother and my grandmother's estates, and it was sad to see the number of pictures of somebody somewhere at sometime - I'm sure some of them had some meaning to the family, but what has been lost to time....

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