1. An interactive system comprising: a sensor device having at least one sensor capable of acquiring a digital representation of a scene, the digital representation comprising non-visual information; and a processing platform coupled with the sensor device and configured to: receive the digital representation, including the non-visual information, from the sensor device; derive a query from at least one of the digital representation and the non-visual information, the query including key information allowing a database to access its indexing system; and cause a result set related to the query to be returned to an interactive device upon submission of the query to the database.