Originally Posted by cashen:
OMG, does anyone in this forum have vision?
Think of traveling and site seeing. You carry your phone down a crowded street in Prague... no more site seeing maps.
In a old church, art galleries, museums!
Take the Di Vinci Code tour with your phone!
Virtual games, tag,
How about this, you on the streets in New York and you're looking for a taxi. You hold your phone up and there are bubbles above all the taxis telling you where they are going and if they will allow fare sharing. Find one, flag it down, split the cost.
Think what GPS did to maps, this is the next step. Not just where you are, but where you're looking. This is the ability to combine the data we need with what we see. Its going to be very big.
Not to be a downer, but the tags (bubbles) are attached to non moving objects, each of the cabs would have to have some sort of transponder, etc, in order for that to work, and I dont see that happening any time soon.
Tours, sight-seeing, etc, I can see the usefulness. The thing is though, most tourist destinations have all the info youd ever want available anyway.
Unless you dont know where you are, where youre going, or how to get there, I dont (personally) have an application for this. I would rather use the tools available (google maps, street view, satellite images) to find where I want to head, then find a route there, and then go. Burying myself in a cumbersome heads-up display will just make folks (an even greater) menace on the road, and have people walking through crowds with their nose in their phone, not watching where they are going.