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- chandan333, on 06/20/2008, -0/+34This is just simply awesome.
Very useful and innovative. - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+26BREAKING: Man using augmented reality while seeking hospital dies 5m to the left of it.
- AboveandBeyond, on 06/20/2008, -0/+21ill label my house "Breast clinic".
- slimasian, on 06/20/2008, -0/+12Agreed with the prior comment that this could be a cool application for crowdsourcing content -- i.e. a group of people tagging points of interest within given locations. My only concern with that idea, which is also the crux of crowdsourced content, would be quality control...i.e. pulling up the geographic markings of someone's post drinking binge...
...wait a minute, that might actually be a little bit funny. "Vomit Stop #1 100 m, Park where I started a fight 160 m" :-P - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+12It's right out of a sci-fi movie. What we really need are tri-corders. But this will do for now. Very nice.
- fas2, on 06/20/2008, -0/+12Seems to work a little slow for now. But if this becomes standard, it will be very neat, with people tagging stuff all around the world. Lost in Tokyo? Regain orientation with Enkin!
- khsheehan, on 06/20/2008, -1/+11I really want this phone to succeed. If Verizon and AT&T don't start making changes to the way they do business then the wireless market will continue to weaken. I'm cheering Sprint and Virgin on; hopefully they will do a great job with these phones.
- silviumc, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7This is the kind of application android will get because it's open and it offers rewards for programmers. iPhone will lag behind, it's a pitty they don't open up.
- sprash, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5And this App didn't make it to the top 50 applications of the Google Android Developer Challenge? So there have to be at least 50 other applications which are better... hmm exciting times.
- dmarquard, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Dugg for the dinosaur in the background. I'd watch it again.
- Ryanx0r, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Wow.. this is very very cool. I can see good use for this application. It might even be a great replacement for today's GPS systems.. with a little work.
I'm wondering when an Android phone will hit the market though. - Waiting2awake, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3they are still holding on to an outdated philosophy
- morninglorii, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4Did anyone else have a WTF IS THAT moment the first time the dinosaur made a big movement at 00:19?
- stygiansonic, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3They should link this up with what's been tagged in Wikimapia:
http://www.wikimapia.org/
I use MGMaps for my mobile and it's already linked with Wikimapia. However, Enkin blows it out of the water for obvious reason. Why can't Android come to Canada? - bbqsalad, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2This sounds amazing really. I am looking forward to Android.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Nothing short of amazing here, I really hope this goes far, very promising.
- GiJoeBob, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Very impressive!
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3The opening frame made me pause the video just to come here to say that I think stereotypes are alive and well because these two HAVE TO BE THE ULTIMATE NERDS.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2ERROR: building HOME not found.
- Lick, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2What a genuinely stupid comment that was. Did you really think they would show off a navigation application that only runs on desktops/laptops? Do some research before you say something meaningless again.
- cleverboy, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2This "OS" to succeed you mean. Wishing and hoping will mean nothing if consumers have a fundamental misunderstanding of what they're even referring to. Why cheer on networks even more closed than their major rivals? Competition? Sprint and Virgin need to catch up to the commitments AT&T and Verizon are making. I wish someone would "one-up" them, on openess, but no one is stepping up. Google is the only one holding the network's feet to the fire, with that recent spectrum auction (and the open requirement). Now THAT's making real strides.
- fas2, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, you're right about the stereotypes thing...
- Phocion55, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2The reason it was "laptop sized" was because they were running Enkin through the Android emulator.
- tripledjr, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Computer recognizing buildings = getting scary.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1no, the tags are GPS based – so the program needs to know where you are and what direction you are facing as well as how far you are from the location.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Augmented social networking, find information about people in public by just looking at them – it'd be easy to implement if your device recognized the devices of others.
- SolarRay, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1YES YES YES! Take it to the Art Gallery!
- Janizzary, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Cool robot dinosaur wagging it's tail behind the 2 German guys
- Cimlite, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Another cool use for this could be the friends tracking. Just look around and get a direction/distance to someone in real-time.
- McSwankypants, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2For years (no, really) I've said Apple should release the "iCorder." And when the iPhone was released I thought that device was finally here, but those ***** had to lock it down and have uber-control over every aspect of the device.
I know, this article and your comment were in reference to Android, but your comment reminded me of my "iCorder" thoughts, so out poured the diarrhea from my mind. - Zounas, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Computer did not recognize buildings.
- MegaJimmy8, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Or maybe I was...
- Vodd9, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Does it really need GPS?
Wouldn't you be able to load satellite pictures of a certain area and simply mark your current position on them by yourself with the rest of the application working like shown in the video? - craigp, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3That is, quite frankly, astounding technology. There is some super-hard maths going on there to work all that out. If they could also tie it in to Google's points of interest data and put the direction overlay in the live mode view, you could literally walk around the city knowing where to go and never get lost, and instantly know the phone number/email address/web site of the little shop you've just walked past. Brilliant!
Not too sure why those chose Android over the iPhone, though. If they've been working on it for four months, they wouldn't have known about the GPS in the new iPhone - which is a shame, as the iPhone would have been a perfect platform for this kind of technology. I applaud Google for their Android project, and for the way they're keeping it open to anyone, but I don't think Apple's solution is sufficiently closed to deter many developers. - treelovinhippie, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1omfg, if I had the money, I would have bought these guys out months ago. Awesome idea and innovation, so many forks and features could be added in the future.
- sprint84, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the pleo on the background!
- bleak26, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1here is the research page. it has the video and all sorts
http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/mara/i ... - MegaJimmy8, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Apparently I wasn't the only one who read William Gibson's Spook Country...
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Protect themselves from what? People finding out what their address is?
- bleak26, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Nokias blue sky thinking division are working on something like this it looks nearly as awesome. they show people with other devices riding past in cars , tagged on the screen.
- bleak26, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1This is gonna make for awsome computer games mixing the real world enviroment and the virtual. also it looks like phones will become virtual data viewers / filters.
- ChromeGhost, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Rainbow's End
- Tanath, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Not really innovative. Augmented Reality has been around for some time (and the concept even longer). More like, "It's about bloody time."
But awesome? Yes. :-) - Lemon, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Late this year. HTC Dream.
- mmxtreme, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1I don't think that the iPhone has a digital compass, which is needed to augment the GPS coordinate with orientation data... Maybe the iPhone has one, but I have never heard about it anywhere.
- DraxusD, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I'm doubting we'll ever get one. Hardware isn't really google's thing
- c3rul3an, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I'm sure Microsoft previewed a project similar to this @ a conference not too long ago. Does anyone recall the project name?
- khsheehan, on 06/24/2008, -0/+1I realize that it is an OS (my mistake in the first comment). It's not that I particularly care for Sprint or Virgin as companies I just meant that I hope enough people will be intruigued to pay for their services (considering they are not nearly as big as ATT or VZ). The industry really does need change but for now it doesn't look like anything is happening too fast.
- MommaLu, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I'm just waiting for the day that Google AI actually talks back to me.
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