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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."
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.
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).
Now public schools will again have a rationale for prohibiting cell phones in school!
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.....
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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.
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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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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..."
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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!
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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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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.
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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"?
Haven't a lot of GPS devices been able to essentially do this for years, without all the pointing?
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.
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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.
PDAs and laptops are one thing. But what POSSIBLE benefit would a child have posessing a cellphone at school? All they are / would be is a distraction, with people making / recieving calls and text messages while in class, etc. It's not like they add anything to the educational experience. All they are is an annoyance to teachers.
I would never let my child use a cell phone in school. IF I provided them with one I would explictly tell them it was only to be used after hours / in emergencies, and if they were ever caught with it out of their backpack not in these circumstances I'd remove it from them.
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C) Shut the fuck up and let you carry on ogling?
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Toy guns, such as squirt guns and the pointing devices in coin-op shooting games, are brightly colored so that police officers won't shoot a person holding a toy gun.
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I've had (I'm sure it isn't in any way novel) for television with overlays. So we have tv-text, but now with everything going digital it would be cool with a standard for "html" (including vector graphics) overlays which would be sent with the TV broadcast and toggled by the viewers at will.
For instance, one could have an overlay with the name of the actors floating over their heads. Or the names of the characters -- I know a person that while watching a movie in company, have to ask every freaking minute what is happening on screen..argh -- .. other overlays could provide information on what music is currently playing (linking to the place of purchase with a simple point'n'click with a remote) or just misc information about the program such as the next airtime and what not.
Sure, there's the problem of creating all that metadata, but -- call me a nerd -- it'd be cool.
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"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."
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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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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.
How accurate is this going to be? Certainly not pin point.
I thought about making a toy similar to this, but a little more advanced. You've seen light guns for computers, well how about a gun you can target anything with, sorta. Look up 'Small Arms Trainer' e.g. I built one of these for fun, yes it's a scream with a projecter, webcam and laser pointer.
But I want more, If you can work out were a gun is pointing and you know in advance where the targets are then you work out if they are hit. Simple huh? Well no, it's a real bear to locate something in 3d, it has to be accurate, way less than 1mm.
Of course I posted an ask slashdot but it was rejected, obviously way to technical.
Any ideas?
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I mean most phones are small, and hard to distinguish as phones at long range.
One part of me says 'cool, Doom/Cyberpunk LARP!'
The other part says 'Don't try this in a public place, especially not one in a metropolitan area subject to constant, vague terrorism threats.'
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My Nokia BFG should arrive any day now...
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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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.
I got PalmGun on my Palm. It's Laser Tag with it's IR port, of course, it works with ANY IR device, so people cheat with the uber-strong omni-remote controllers, but otherwise it's still good fun.
Won't it suck to always respawn in the exact same place? Unless of course this phone as some other pretty nifty features, like say teleportation