Google star map is fantastic - I have only seen it on android. But anything else I have tried seems, well, rubbish. Maybe we will look back and laugh like we do at "VRML" and other things.
On Oct 1, 6:43 am, jamesh <jameshug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hallo > > Augmented Reality seems to be really fashionable at the moment. My > feeling is that it is cool, but not very useful in its current form, > due to a number of factors. > > * lack of interesting, timely, accurate and most importantly useful > geocoded data > * performance - esp. grabbing images from the camera > * sensor accuracy - if GPS reports that I'm 50m away from where I > really am, this will screw up a positioning of nearby objects. > Similarly, compass reading a few degrees out. > * arms length operation. My arms get tired really quickly, a.k.a. > Minority Report Syndrome. Perhaps we need the retinal displays after > all. > * UI - Joe flagged this, I'm not sure it's a completely solved problem > yet, particularly with arms length operation. > > The Google Star Map has is the most useful AR type app I have seen to > date. > > I spoke to Mark Kramer of Wikitude (http://www.wikitude.org/) at the > Over the Air Conference (http://www.overtheair.org) last week. Of > course he was upbeat about AR in general and Wikitude in particular, > but the API they're building out included a load of more plugins - > coolest, I thought, was for importing KML. This will definitely solve > the data issue, if nothing else. > > Wikitude was one of the finalists of the first Android Developer > Challenge > (2008?).http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/android/adc/adc_gallery/app.html?id=50 > so they've had a little bit of a headstart over Yelp and even Layar. > > I do hope that the various players in this space can make things work. > It is one of the whizziest things to show people, but least used. > qvhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle > > Great to hear Android apps being talked about by-the-way. I've got a > load of recommendations, and even one of my own - perhaps another > thread for that? > > Thanks, and regards, > > James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
