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Visual search engine coming to iPhone in June

The iPhone SDK will bring thousands of new applications to the iPhone and iPod Touch that weren’t possible to make in the past. Evolution Robotics is creating a revolutionary visual search technology they call ViPR – and it’s coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR lets you take a photo with you’re iPhone’s built-in camera of any book, movie or CD, send it to their server, and automatically get an e-mail back with all the information about it; YouTube videos, iTunes music store links, Wikipedia links and more.

The iPhone is not the only phone to be treated with ViPR. It will also be deployed in Japan on KDDI’s camera phones this Spring. Check the video after the jump, you’ll see how well this demo of ViPR performs – even when the camera angle is not straight: