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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. Imagine the possibilities by Patrick+Cable+II · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Can you imagine how this would be taken in Los Angeles?

    "POLICE! Put your hands down or we'll frag you!"

  2. redundancy much? by MediaBoy77 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What's the point of pointing at a movie theater and getting a list of showtimes?

    If you're close enough for your PDA to see the theater line-of-sight, you're probably close enough to walk up to the ticket window and see showtimes for yourself!

  3. Re:Won’t work by giminy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What about a patent for pointing at stuff using a computer?

    --
    The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
  4. I agree it's cool... by splerdu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But will it let me rocket jump?

  5. Thats all we need... by greygoose · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Another way for big brother to tell where we are at any given time.