ComVu Media: First to Enter Automated Geotagging Market
Amit Chowdhry | Monday September 25, 2006 | 584 views
ComVu Media Inc., announced on September 12 that they have launched a location-based service (LBS) solution that automates video geotagging. Consumers can automatically have their videos tagged with the location of its filming. ComVu is the first to enter the automatic geotagging market.
ComVu’s software is called PocketCaster. PocketCaster can embed the position of mobile phones in each frame of a video. People that would like to see these videos can follow the path of the mobile phone indicated by several dots on a satellite map. Check out the screenshot below:
As you may be able to tell by the screenshot, there will be personal website and social networking revolved around these geotagged videos. For example, users from New Orleans would be able to click on Times Square New York tags and see what life is like in the Big Apple and see how different it is from the Big Easy.
This technology is enabled by a phone’s internal GPS (global positioning systems) function. If a phone does not have an internal GPS system, consumers can purchase a blue-tooth GPS receiver to take advantage of ComVu Media technology.
“It’s not time efficient to manually tag videos with a location when you already have a camera phone with GPS available,” explains William Mutual, CEO of ComVu. “With mobile workers like first responders, law enforcement officers, and insurance adjusters relying on immediate and accurate locations for dispatching crews or for legal documentation, there is a definite demand for a reliable and efficient geotagging solution.”
The “Automated Geotagging” solution should be fully deployed by the end of December. The Management team of ComVu includes two of the founders of POPCast, a web application that enables anyone to broadcast their videos via various channels and then share them using P2P software. POPcast Communications technology secured licensing agreements with Microsoft, Apple, Compaq, Sharp, and JVC.
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