MIXED-REALITY BEACONS

A cloud compute engine applies geo-location information received from a mobile computing device to identify, within a database of geo-location markers, a bundle of geo-location markers corresponding to points of potential user interest within a prescribed proximity to the mobile device, transmitting the geo-location markers to the mobile device to be rendered in real time, on a display of the mobile device, as mixed-reality “beacons” overlaid on an image of an objective scene and anchored to geo-positioning coordinates of places/objects within the objective scene. As a user moves/reorients the mobile device, beacons corresponding to points of interest within the field of view appear in the mixed-reality display at locations corresponding to physical locations of the points of interest within the objective scene, enabling the user to identify, within the physical world, locations and other information regarding places/objects/persons of interest based on overlay-locations of the beacons within the mobile-device display.