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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.

  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.

  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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    The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,