Google Star map works great because it's one of the few applications that relies on 3 different axes, WikiTude etc. are just as useful (if not more) with just a 2-axes map view. I was working on an Android map to draw planes in the sky with annotations (heading, model etc.) but it turned out the data services are too slow for this kind of thing (in the US for instance, a 6 min delay - which could have caused a plane to go quite far). So I think it's interesting and I would not be surprised if next gen GPS software would use augmented reality (already a research project on Android doing that) and an application like the vOICe is just cool (if useless to the sighted at least).
/Casper On 3 Okt., 07:15, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
