bluetooth proximity

Dave O'Connor doc at skynet.ie
Wed Jun 18 23:28:33 CEST 2008


Ok, I just got this email twice. Something's definitely funky with the 
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again.

Cheers
Dave

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, john wrote:

> Saw this at some mobile event:
>
> http://www.vimeo.com/875097
>
> 2008/6/18 Ewan Marshall <ewanm89 at googlemail.com>:
>> W. B. Kranendonk wrote:
>>> --- On Mon, 6/16/08, Tilman Baumann <tilman at baumann.name> wrote:
>>>
>>>> AVee wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>  (...) There are a lot of reasons
>>>>>> why this is not feasible. Sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I tend to agree, however, things might change if you
>>>>>
>>>> add gps. You'd might just (...) That leaves only the
>>>> 'exact measurement' to be
>>>>
>>>>> solved.
>>>>>
>>>>> It might work, but the precision will probably still
>>>>>
>>>> be far to low to be
>>>>
>>>>> useable for anything.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> (absolute position...) But the
>>>> relative position should be extremely high. (As high as
>>>> DGPS can get)
>>>>
>>>> At least in theory.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for thinking along.
>>>
>>> What I was thinking of, in a game setting, to use the phone as some sort of hack & slash device. Given my opponent and me are withing reasonable proximity, she with -say- a spear-device, me with a sword or so. She could try stabbing me, while I parry. The devices have to calculate the hit ratio.
>>>
>>> Would a sound-code offer a possible solution? Could we measure some doppler effect with the built in microphone?
>>>
>> You'll be better off using the accelerometers...
>>> And, on a side note... How impact proof will the phone be, might she try throwing her spear? :-P
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