Cyborg Vision on the Mobile Phone

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I came across this technology again recently. I got really excited when they released such videos last year. Using the navigation system/GPS and camera to geo tag location in real time. These tags pop up when you aim your phone camera at any place. The tags point towards the location and can also provide information regarding the location.

It is actually known as Augmented Reality (AR). As seen here on bbc last year, it was the biggest thing ever made apprently.

Mobile phone operators, at least, are hoping it will be the next big thing as programmers learn to corral all the bells and whistles of smart phones – GPS, video, accelerometers – into “killer applications”.

For the first time such AR is available for handsets.

Via the video function of a mobile phone’s camera it is now possible to combine a regular pictorial view with added data from the internet just as the fictional Terminator was able to overlay its view of the world with vital information about its surroundings.

More about virtual sphere.

‘Virtual sphere’

AR is a precocious new technology; a spin-off from virtual reality (VR).

But unlike VR, which seeks to persuade you that you really are in a fantasy place, AR enhances perception of the real world.
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Augmented reality could help people find a bite to eat

Not only could this form of rich, intuitive and easy to grasp data be the next killer app for the mobile, some see it changing our world view forever.

“The biggest significance of mobile phones as media is that they have increased our closeness to virtual reality,” says Japanese writer and net culture guru Toshinao Sasaki.

“Because compared to PCs, mobile phones are with us for much longer hours.”

True the mobile phones arewith us more compared to PCs. The full story can still be accessed here at Mobile phones get cyborg vision.

Here is found a youtube link to the Iphone London Tube application. Suprisingly i have not seen anyone use or talk about this app.

And to carry on with this technology, i would like you all to see this clip which is based on the same technology.

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Kaiser2011