Well the BIG money is in advertisement as you see with the movie poster. Could be VERY useful with things like navigation. I’m thinking of something that might make the world look like Google Street View, ie Businesses are clearly labeled, streets are labeled without needing to look for a marked intersection, their product identification info seems useful.
This technology seems a lot like the internet, it isn’t shit until people start building off of it.
I remember back in the 90s sitting in front of a buddy’s computer that had a modem and looking at a few sites and getting bored.
I remember back in the 90’s getting on Usenet and spending way too much time talk-typinging real-time dirtbike and various motorcycle trash-and-tech with guys around the country, and organizing and having off-road get-togethers around the country – Georgia, Colorado Idaho – it was a lot like the GBR. The guys who tried to do it web-based were slow and boring.
That being said I’m not getting a “smartphone” until that’s the only choice left – I don’t need or want that.
You could use it to create a 2nd set of eyes. Say you’re shopping (at a gun show, costco, wherever). You could have a program that reacts to a particular logo – the brand you’re looking for. Put it on your hip with a bluetooth headset. If it sees your logo, it reacts with images and sound, you hear the sound through headset and find your product.
I think Augmented Reality would be really useful for tourist locations. Can you imagine touring Gettysburg, or the beaches at Normandy, and when you aim your device at a particular location, you get a movie or description of what occurred in that area of the battle? I think it would be cool.
January 12th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Well the BIG money is in advertisement as you see with the movie poster. Could be VERY useful with things like navigation. I’m thinking of something that might make the world look like Google Street View, ie Businesses are clearly labeled, streets are labeled without needing to look for a marked intersection, their product identification info seems useful.
This technology seems a lot like the internet, it isn’t shit until people start building off of it.
I remember back in the 90s sitting in front of a buddy’s computer that had a modem and looking at a few sites and getting bored.
Try doing that today!
January 12th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I remember back in the 90’s getting on Usenet and spending way too much time talk-typinging real-time dirtbike and various motorcycle trash-and-tech with guys around the country, and organizing and having off-road get-togethers around the country – Georgia, Colorado Idaho – it was a lot like the GBR. The guys who tried to do it web-based were slow and boring.
That being said I’m not getting a “smartphone” until that’s the only choice left – I don’t need or want that.
January 12th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
You could use it to create a 2nd set of eyes. Say you’re shopping (at a gun show, costco, wherever). You could have a program that reacts to a particular logo – the brand you’re looking for. Put it on your hip with a bluetooth headset. If it sees your logo, it reacts with images and sound, you hear the sound through headset and find your product.
I think Augmented Reality would be really useful for tourist locations. Can you imagine touring Gettysburg, or the beaches at Normandy, and when you aim your device at a particular location, you get a movie or description of what occurred in that area of the battle? I think it would be cool.