What if real life and our virtual lives melded into one? Well, some researchers at Georgia Tech are working on exactly that. The new application, coming to iPhone shortly, can be customized and personalized to the individual to make a full-scale interactive experience for tourists and anyone using the program. What it does is use the camera from your cellphone to gather information about what you're looking at, your cellphone's visual display will then show both the camera view and information about what you're looking at, whether it's a website, blog, or just a title. Then you can interact with it in the virtual world.
You can see certain friends twitter updates from where they actually "left" them, website links to say arizona.edu just by looking toward the football stadium, and even what strangers want to publicly say about certain places. The researchers are making use of KML (the technology GoogleEarth uses for virtual mapping) and changing the way we interact with technology drastically. The applicability of this could grow substantially and make those with the application in a separate world with others who have it, leaving those of us without it in the dark ages.
I personally think it's wild how integrated people want our lives to become with technology. There's no doubt in my mind this will catch on and keep people busy for hours on end. It's hard to be bored anymore with all the technology forcing its way into our lives, people will come up with all kinds of crazy ways to use this new app from dating to dozing and everything in between.
This is quite interesting, intimidating as heck though. It would be nice to know where my friends and family are posting information from on occation, although that could get quite personal. Im curious to see how others would react to this new app. I personally would not get this app because one I dont have an iphone but if I did I feel like it would be too much of an invasion of privacy for me. Im sure those individuals whom are very technologically savy today would enjoy this app greatly. Very intersting topic. I personally am quite fond of the idea that one can find a website from takinga video/picture of the building your looking at, it would come in handy thats for sure.
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