Paul Coulton's Forum Nokia Blog - Point ‘n’ Seek: the return of the geo-wand

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coultonp

Before we release fro public we are adding new features and testing locally. I will blog very soon about the latest feature relating to UGCfor POI augmentation

navidn73

HI Paul
This Is Very Very Good Idea , But When This Program Is Ready For Download ?
Thanks Very Much.

coultonp

Hi matbal
Must admit i am pleased with the torchlight as it seems to work really well in peoples minds for mapping the functionality to their behaviour
Thanks for the link I think i had seen some part of this when Peter presented his work on 3D maps at Mobile HCI but not this particular version.

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matbal

Hi Paul,

I like the torchlight metaphor! Please see http://p2d.ftw.at for a related project done back in 2006/07.

camera compass

coultonp

Hi NET9
First of all thanks for your positive comments. The camera could certainly detect movement although without an initial point of reference a practical compass would be challenging. The idea of Street view is certainly possible as we are allowing people to take pictures that incorporate meta data not only about position but also direction.

Augmented Reality

NET9

Very nice idea! It would be cool to see an option to use the phone's camera as a potential digital compass solution since most phones have cams, but not many have compasses just yet. I can envision Google Maps incorporating this into its Street View technology as well. It will be interesting to see where this new dimension for mobile goes. Keep up the great work.