Augmented Reality: Will you use it?

[Dryland]

I look forward to using this technology on vacations when I want more info about an item. Imagine a link to Wikipedia just by pointing your iPhone at a structure or monument.

Today's video showing how it could work to get information about a person is even cooler. No matter where you are you will be truly on the web. Some could care less about this, but for a geek like me I think it's revolutionary.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Jellotime91]

It's definitely revolutionary once more people know it's out there.

Once it gets more widespread appreciation it's going to be a way of life.

 

[cobra302]

i think its kinda freaky! i would probably use it from time to time, but the freaky factor would still be there!

 

[Alli]

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.

 

[whmurray]

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup............

Go to a what?

 

[Jellotime91]

Go to a what?

A local meetup where you meet other twitter people.. lol my sister goes to them sometimes O_O

 

[Alli]

All those people you follow on Twitter - some of them are really nice folks! We've been getting together once or twice a month now for almost a year. But it's tough the first time you show up alone!

 

[chobbs1]

Tweet up. Never heard of em. Are they advertised? Are they scheduled in different cities?

 

[chobbs1]

Oh! To the OP. He'll yeah I'll use it! It is the next big thing!

 

[Alli]

All you have to do is find people who tweet in your area. If they don't already have them - suggest one.

 

[chobbs1]

Copy that alli. Thanks

 

[thinkTwice]

I'll use it, bur sparingly.
Imagine what it will do to battery life...

 

[ryrycalguy]

I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.

Just saying...

 

[snakes2003g]

I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.

Just saying...

lol i could so see that happening. the robot part of course.

 

[Duvi]

Not sure I will.

I was part of a CrackBerry Meet-up; pretty much the same as a Tweet-up.

 

[redbeard]

Yes, there are all sorts of really cool things they can do, I'm hoping to see an augmented reality GPS app before too long.

 

[icebike]

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.

Ah, sorry, that's not going to happen in your lifetime. Facial recognition takes HUGE databases and Monstrous processing power. If Apple object to Girls in swimsuits imagine how ape**** they will go over any application allowing anyone to fetch their details.

Not going to happen.

 

[icebike]

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.

All you have to do is find people who tweet in your area. If they don't already have them - suggest one.

Why?

Isn't knowing when they are brushing their teeth enough info? Is it necessary to watch them too?

 

[ctt1wbw]

Well, as long as the apps don't cost as much as GMap or Navigon, then I'll use them. Although I think it might be a waste where I live. I'm sure I'm the only one in Stanley with an iPhone. I did see one or two other people in Luray with an iPhone...

 

[Alli]

icebike, evidently you are content knowing there are dozens of people in your area who share your interests in many things without ever getting to know them. Personally, I like to meet people with whom I share common interests. It's what's called a "social life." I still get together once a year for my spring break with people I met on forums 5 years ago. My best friend in the world is someone I met in a chat room 10 years ago. And now, thanks to tweetups, I have friends who come to my house weekly to watch Lost, (finally!) have local friends with whom to enjoy sushi every week or two, and have been invited to join an institution in the south that would previously have been out of my reach.

So stay home. No skin off my back.