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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 iosmart · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. 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.

    3. Re:Virtual Light by demonbug · · Score: 4, Funny

      There is a system similar to what you describe at the Exploratorium in S.F. It puts up an image, and tracks where your eyes are looking, then replays what you were looking at. Pretty cool. I was there a year ago or so with my girlfriend, and purposely concentrated on every female in the images (she hit me).

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

    Jeff Bezos has an exclusive patent on pointing at stuff.

  5. 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.

    2. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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    1. Re:Silly by jpmkm · · Score: 4, Funny

      This would be perfect, because blind people like to go to the movies.

  8. Sod that. by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    * = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.

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  9. long live Clippy! by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

    It appears as though you are trying to stare at that blonde woman's breasts. Would you like me to...

    A) Order some pornographic material to relieve your urges?

    B) Zoom in?

    C) Shut the fuck up and let you carry on ogling?

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  10. They did this before by Sevn · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's called lasertag.

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  11. In other news... by SkewlD00d · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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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  12. 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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  13. ultimate doom cellphone by demonbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    My Nokia BFG should arrive any day now...