Why Active-To-Phone matters for content providers, and i-mode
|
Opposite Toshiba’s digital cinema is Hitachi’s virtual reality safari. Hitachi equips visitors with portable handsets that contain a prototype of its mu-chip, a processor slated to become the key component of future wireless devices, including mobile phones. As the handset is brought close to particular transmitters, it instantly downloads any information on offer in that area and displays it on a small screen. The safari ride itself employs a revolutionary 3D projection system designed to work with a set of sensors strapped to the hands. Once immersed in the virtual reality world, solid-seeming objects can be plucked from mid-air and examined more closely in the hands. A rare butterfly, for example, can be persuaded to land in one's palm and then be looked at from any angle. Release your fingers, and it flutters off to join its companions back in the VR jungle. Other gadgetry that went on display for the first time yesterday included object-recognition binoculars created by NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile phone company. As users scan the surrounding area, the binoculars will recognise certain objects and details about them will appear in the eyepiece. Fix on a passing plane, for example, and the machine will tell you the flight number and destination. Turn your attention to a flower, and it will tell you what variety it is. The machine contains a 360-degree “radar” to point you in the direction of things that it knows it already has information on.
NetMotion Wireless, Inc., the market leader in mobility management solutions, and Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, today announced a joint marketing agreement to provide secure, seamless and high-performance roaming solutions among metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks and wide area networks.
Using Mobility XE software from NetMotion Wireless and Tropos MetroMesh routers, City of Milpitas police officers and firefighters working in the field have secure and seamless roaming access to critical applications such as the CalPhoto Database, DMV records and photos, hazardous materials databases, video surveillance and mobile dispatch applications, to name a few.
i-mode Strategy offers independent audits, analysis, project reviews and mobile strategy business advice, seminars and round tables, conference chair and speaking, magazine articles and press comment centered on the mobile content and mobile services ecosystem and DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet system. Walter Adamson and Pascal Lorne also operate the i-mode Contents Forum, more details here. Walter Adamson is Founder and President of Digital Investor which helps fund, grow, expand internationally and buy and sell IT, wireless and mobile-related early-stage companies. Contact: adamson [at] digitalinvestor.com.au