Augmented reality Burger King detector

Por Saiyine el 2009-08-14 15:50:10 - Secciones: PRINCIPAL ENGLISH IDEAS - Enlace permanente: 883

I've got to admit the idea I'm going to tell you today is not really mine, but heavily inspired in a video I saw yesterday evening about an augmented reality pseudo game I read about at proggy's.

If I understood correctly, in that game you just wander around with your iPhone, and when you feel like it, you take an snapshot of whatever you want, like your favourite restaurant and it gets to a central database, and the other players can, when staring at the streets, get out the iPhone, point with the camera all over, and watch how the sites marked by the other players float over the image of the cars and buildings.

I suposse is hard to get even with my awesome English level, so let's have a look at the video:

Yeah, it's an stupid game. Looks as funny as writing the information of your music cds, get it uploaded to cddb for sharing with the community and then the guy in charge of the web changing it to earn money with your work. Well, at least with the cddb fiasco it was clear who was the winner! Because what's the point with the iPhone's?

Anyway, I'm not really interested in that crap at all, just in the way the data shows over the images, so let me tell you the idea that will make you rich: locating Burger Kings!!!!

It goes like this: get a list with all the locations for your delicious, delicious Whoppers. Ah, poor Americans, you think you live in the first world and you don't have the Big King XXL burger at your Burger Kings. It's like, like... Well, is so sad I can't think of anything. I would say that living in a country where you are forced to choose between Whoppers and Long Chickens it's like... a basket of kitten crying in a rainy day. Or worst!

Once you have all the GPS data, and I suppose that's the hardest part of the project, because you'll have to ask them to give you the info, and the permission to use the imaginery, the logos and such, put it all in an little database, and write a program so, wherever the owner of the iPhone is, when he, she or it puts up the movil, it works like a burger-king-detector like in the video.

I know I would buy it if I had the iPhone. Heck, you could be a hero, when, being lost and hungry with your friends in a city far from yours, you get out your iPhone, and say slowly: "There's a Burger King near, to the North. Come with me if you want to live". Man, you'll be, like, better than them. And they would know.

And just for $0.99 at the App Store, or whatever is called.

Some would say you could do it for Android mobiles, or with other burger shops, but I think it's clearly impossible.

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