Comments on: The killer app for iPhone 3GS

By: Danger359

Danger359 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:14:32 +0000

great post. however you have forgotten the potentials of massive interconnectivity via social network. think: distributed application. distributed sensing. global pooling of individually collected data / comments. This is where the true power of the iPhone will appear.

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By: android user

android user — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:45:20 +0000

Zzz. Heard of wikitude?? Been there, done that

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:33:02 +0000

It’s not a question of “correcting drift”. That’s like saying the iPhone’s light sensor can be used as a forward-facing camera just by applying a bit of color correction. It’s not the accuracy of the information from the camera that’s the problem but the richness of it.

By: Hang

Hang — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:54:40 +0000

Joe: Any apps that do that are using undocumented APIs and Apple is largely turning a blind eye to it at the moment.

Graham: Any AR app would probably work using a combination of accelerometer and feature tracking to correct for drift. Andrew Davidson did some great work on this when I was working in the area if you want to check out what was possible back in 2004.

Robert: It doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be good enough. The iPhone is going to be the first real AR experience for a large number of people and it’s going to cement it as an interaction style of it’s own right.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:44:26 +0000

The iphone is getting better, but it is far from the ultimate augmented reality device. Sure, expect to see a bunch of basic AR applications coming out that take advantage of the accelerometers and the compass, but will ultimately still be gimmicky. The “really cool stuff” (at least half of the stuff you have listed in this article) will require a few more generations of iphones and a supporting back-end (or cloud) infrastructure. Just because you can do some marker tracking or face tracking (it isn’t really face *recognition* or *identification* just yet) doesn’t mean that AR is ready for prime time. Give it a few years… it is definitely coming.

Check out my presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam if you want to know more about what I think about it… http://www.mobilemonday.nl/talks/robert-rice-augmented-reality/

By: David A.

David A. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:38:42 +0000

“X-Ray” vision for construction / repair / maintenance. Scan the iPhone over a street and see the buried pipes (documented by plans on archive or “as built” pictures”) See piping in walls, etc. Recognize electrical panels, large mechanical devices, etc. and like existing AR (e.g., used in aircraft maintenance and some other high cost applications), overlay diagrams and other useful information. This brings known value AR into a whole new market.