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Thanks to a ground breaking new system in Japan Mobile phone owners will be able to click for more information on building, signs and even on people simply by pointing their handset at them ! This would be similar to the same way website link are clicked on for more details.
Mapion local search allows people to point at what they want more information on, in the real world, from their mobile phone. How is it done ? By combining satellite navigation and sensors to determine what someone is pointing at.
The company that designed the technology is GeoVector. Patrick Bray from GeoVector says that "the phone know where the user is via GPS, and know the direction the user is pointing to thanks to a heading sensor. It send this information to our servers, where the billboard location and information are stored." Brays colleague, Arron Judson adds "the building needs no special beacons, barcodes, or other identifying solutions, we just need to know the location. There are many databases of location being developed, such as Google Local, Yahoo! Maps, MSN MapPoint, Amazon A9."
See a demo here
