Point your phone at a landmark and instantly know what it is. The project Magic Wand implements this concept for S60 devices equipped with GPS and a magnetometer (compass) sensor.

Magic Wand is implemented as a client-server solution. A Java-based web server stores the Points of Interest (POIs) in a database. The client application for the phone is based on Java ME. As most Nokia phones don't support the Mobile Sensor API for Java ME yet, the component for sensor access has been developed in native Symbian OS C++ and transmits the data via an internal socket to the Java ME application.

The full source code of this application is available for free (GPL license), so it's the ideal starting point for your own augmented reality applications!

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