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"Music Finder" You open an app. You're played three different pieces of music. You're asked which one you like best. The program branches and plays you three more pieces of music. Again they're different but from a more similar selection. At each point you can highlight bits of music to go back to - to buy that music or to start the chain from that point. One example would have this tightly connected to one particula…
Something with the Oculus VR tech. I think there's massive, exciting options opening up with the Gear VR or similar, and anyone starting now will have a substantial first mover advantage. I have two specific applications for VR: the metaverse, and really good porn. (These do not need to be combined though I suppose they could.) I would argue that Second Life failed mostly due to execution issues. I'd love to see a vi…
A secondary market in sports bets.
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But satellite imagery can be several years old.
Is there a way to pay for more up to date imagery? Perhaps more populated areas are imaged more frequently?
In CeeBot you learn programming concepts and whole languages by writing instructions for virtual robots. You can see how they move around and perform different tasks. (Actually Mehran Sahami from Stanford teaches the programming methodology course with a little virtual robot named Karel with exactly the same principle).
The player in my game would be a spacecraft captain. But unlike in other games, where you just press a button and the vessel goes to any direction, this ship had been hit by a meteoroid and its main computer is broken. Therefore all the commands have to be done manually and any computation is performed on a piece of paper and just put into the command line.
There could be no graphics at all. Just the roar of your enginges.
In the beginning the tasks are simple, but the more you play the more complicated the calculations become. It begins with simple arithmetics and trade. Later you need trigonometry to fire a "torpedo". It would be great if you could progress it even further, with advanced math and phisics, and also chemistry - you need to combine different substances in order to burn them as fuel or to produce oxygen to breathe or combine nitrogen and carbondiaxide in order to grow food in the farm.
It would be great if instead of taking tests the teacher would just say: "John, you are still on level 8, you should go to Alpha Centauri and fight with pirates. Play more!" - which would mean - learn to solve problems with two unknowns and calculate volume of spheres.
And imagine a multiplayer with students on the same level who have to make accurate calclulations fast because without it they would just float in the dark and cold outerspace.
I will never make it - I don't know math and programming that well - but I'd play the game!
Identify damaged roofs via satellite imagery, match to addresses, and sell the list to roofers for marketing?
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Well, at least I know I can have a good idea. Now I just need to be able to not be the last to have it.
And also be able to implement the idea. Not that I'm saying that you couldn't. But in general, I think having a great idea is not really worth all that much on it's own.
Identify damaged roofs via satellite imagery, match to addresses, and sell the list to roofers for marketing?
I had a similar idea for pool builders. Find streets where the majority of houses have pools and sell lists of the people without pools.