You can read interview with them:
In other note: notice the robotic dinosaur in middle bottom of the video (30sec)
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#22Very cool, but I wonder how usability will be impacted when the number of tagged things increases a lot.
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If you're good at getting your bearings, yes. But having witnessed myself and others struggle to figure out "wait, which way is which according to this map?" for a little bit before getting our internal compass aligned with the map's orientation, it would be much simpler to literally point your camera at something and have it tell you what's in that direction. Depending on how precise the tags are, they would also be…
Yes! This is exactly why the live view is so useful. I did a land nav course in the Marine Corps; we had compasses we used to sight landmarks so we could triangular our location. To do this you held up the compass and looked through a slit. I'd call that analog navigation: The live view of Enkin is the same concept in digital form.
Sailors do it that way too, its called a hockey puck compass, you site through it at a landmark and triangulate your position on a chart after you get a few bearings on a few different spots. Now most people just use GPS but the idea is the same.
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yes I was being tongue in cheek, forgot the smiley. I thought ruby is quite a bit older.
Hey mn, Java used to be "Oak," and according to our good friend Wikipedia it was created in "June 1991." I thought it was later but guess not. It had the whole set-top box history, and would eventually run our fridges and toasters in the 21st century. Seriously though, do you remember when Java was released? It was fun! And definitely considered the "hip" language at the time, much like Ruby is now. I think it's inte…
I didn't know that about Roger Moore - well you learn something every day ;)
I read the book by patrick naughton on the history of Oak etc, quite an interesting read.
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#25Reminds me of that scene from Fight Club where he's in the condo with the little IKEA names and prices floating next to the furniture and accessories in the room.
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#26This reminds me of Metroid Prime.
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It's really just the video from what I saw. The demonstration looked a little choppy but as it progressed and smoothed out I could definitely see a game being created out of this (at least it's feasible). I doubt you would want to do this on your phone, but similar technology on a smaller scale used in a laser tag or paint ball game would be really interesting. You could set objectives and see where your team is at,…
I have read about special forces training with something like this. It'd be really cool though if it can be replicated with cheap off the shelf tech. Do you know how hackable cellphone transmitters and receivers tends to be? I really see the cellphone as the portal into a virtual/physical life hybrid. If there was a cheap, popular cellphone with hackable hardware, then this could be a reality right now. If it was als…
I know that phones tend to be very hackable, I just don't think that people would use them (especially if they're priced anywhere near comparable smartphones/iphones) for games where they could break.