“Layar has announced the release of Layar Vision, an extension of its open source augmented reality platform for mobile devices,” iPodNN reports.
“Layar Vision allows the device to recognize real world objects and show digital content layered over them,” iPodNN reports. “The Layar platform includes audio, video and animated objects, as well as location-based layers.”
iPodNN reports, “Layar Vision works with printed materials such as newspapers, magazines, and posters. To spur adoption of the Layar platform, the company is sponsoring a competition to develop the best layer. Ten prizes totaling $55,000 will be awarded. The team that creates the layer rated highest by the company’s panel of judges will win $15,000.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]
It may be useful in the future, but at the moment it seems like a gimmicky time waster.
However,, if it turns out to be really useful, I will use it.
I am at a loss at what this should be doing. The video and website is of no help. Seems like a waste of time.
When the uselessness is more usable I will use it.
Hmmm, totally useless, eh. Sounds like a perfect fit for Microsoft.
I would guess that none of you are familiar with the writer William Gibson, who invented the term ‘cyberspace’, and his 2007 book ‘Spook Country’, which predicted exactly this technology:
“Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson. A political thriller set in contemporary North America, it followed on from the author’s previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and was succeeded in 2010 by Zero History, which featured much of its core cast of characters. The plot comprises the intersecting tales of three protagonists: Hollis Henry, a musician-turned-journalist researching a story on locative art; Tito, a young Cuban-Chinese operative whose family is on occasion in the employ of a renegade ex-CIA agent; and Milgrim, a drug-addled translator held captive by Brown, a strangely authoritarian and secretive man. Themes explored include the ubiquity of locative technology, eversion of cyberspace and the political climate of the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.”
Note the sentence “Themes explored include the ubiquity of locative technology”, that’s what Layar are doing.
Apple are a decade or more ahead of what most people think is possible or useful, it’s only the rare few who can see that far ahead, like Gibson does. You lot are myopic.
The best technology is an attempt to recreate psychic powers. I saw a little girl on the TV show Heroes who had a talent for locating anybody, anywhere. This technology is indistinguishable from magic. International cell roaming is magic. TV is magic. Hot water in my shower is a miracle. Poof goes the logic.
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Hey, just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not out to get me!