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Maybe point it at a sports game for stats and game data? Point it down the street to have great restaurants highlighted? Point it at the sky to get astronomic

Maybe point it at a sports game for stats and game data? Point it down the street to have great restaurants highlighted? Point it at the sky to get astronomical facts? Point it at tourist landmarks to find out about them? Point it anywhere to see where athletes/runners/cyclists have run and in what time? Visualise all historical car accidents at a given location? Visualise all hidden infrastructure, underground gas lines etc? See history overlaid on the present? Visualise public transport routes? Show "upcoming events at this venue" as you pass theatres, cinemas, stadiums?

vilmosi 9y ago
Can't you do all that without the pointless waving, faster?
amelius 9y ago
Mask advertisements, and replace them by beautiful paintings.
- davnicwil 9y ago
  An ad-blocker for the physical world? Hmm.. Will employees of the city 'pop up' in your path as you walk down the street: "Hey! I see you're using an ad blocker! The city relies on advertisements to fund the street you're walking on right now, please consider turning it off!"
  - vbezhenar 9y ago
    Your AR device will replace those employees with beautiful dancing girls, of course.
  - timpark 9y ago
    Obligatory link to Black Mirror-inspired hackathon project "Brand Killer": http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/ http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/
forgottenacc57 9y ago
Having said all that I'm sure it will go the way of the Apple Watch.
- matwood 9y ago
  > Having said all that I'm sure it will go the way of the Apple Watch. A popular and growing technology that gets more useful with each release?
  - forgottenacc57 9y ago
    In bizzaro world, sure.
gcb0 9y ago
> Point it down the street to have great restaurants highlighted? on android early on (before 2.3!) yelp called it lens, and had a monocle icon. google maps and nokia apps also had it at some point I think. and no better implementation will ever make it less useless. it was a uter useles gimmick. everyone tried it exactly once.
- calvin_c 9y ago
  It was on one of the early versions of the Yelp iOS app as well. Don't really remember if it was there on day one, but I remember playing around with it in iOS 2 or 3.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - falsedan 9y ago
    It was called Monocle, and it's still there, under More (on the version of the app I have installed).
- drusepth 9y ago
  It's actually coming back in Android O as "Google Lens". [1] Highlights include identifying trees/flowers in view, automatically connecting to Wifi by pointing at the sticker on a router, and pulling up a business listing and ratings by pointing at a building. Apparently it'll be a part of Google Camera, but also baked into the Assistant so you can take pictures within the context of your conversation to "show" the assistant things, clarify what you're talking about, or ask for more information about something unknown. Can also apparently integrate with your other Google services, with one example given as pointing your phone at a theater marquee, it pulling up ticket prices for you, and you saying "add this to my calendar". [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-lens-will-let-smartphone-cameras-understand-what-they-see-and-take-action/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-lens-will-let-smart...
- mavhc 9y ago
  The ones I tried in olden times just used GPS and orientation to overlay geodata, camera input wasn't used

vilmosi 9y ago

Can't you do all that without the pointless waving, faster?

amelius 9y ago

Mask advertisements, and replace them by beautiful paintings.

davnicwil 9y ago
An ad-blocker for the physical world? Hmm.. Will employees of the city 'pop up' in your path as you walk down the street: "Hey! I see you're using an ad blocker! The city relies on advertisements to fund the street you're walking on right now, please consider turning it off!"
- vbezhenar 9y ago
  Your AR device will replace those employees with beautiful dancing girls, of course.
- timpark 9y ago
  Obligatory link to Black Mirror-inspired hackathon project "Brand Killer": http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/ http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/

forgottenacc57 9y ago

Having said all that I'm sure it will go the way of the Apple Watch.

matwood 9y ago
> Having said all that I'm sure it will go the way of the Apple Watch. A popular and growing technology that gets more useful with each release?
- forgottenacc57 9y ago
  In bizzaro world, sure.

gcb0 9y ago

> Point it down the street to have great restaurants highlighted? on android early on (before 2.3!) yelp called it lens, and had a monocle icon. google maps and nokia apps also had it at some point I think. and no better implementation will ever make it less useless. it was a uter useles gimmick. everyone tried it exactly once.

calvin_c 9y ago
It was on one of the early versions of the Yelp iOS app as well. Don't really remember if it was there on day one, but I remember playing around with it in iOS 2 or 3.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- falsedan 9y ago
  It was called Monocle, and it's still there, under More (on the version of the app I have installed).
drusepth 9y ago
It's actually coming back in Android O as "Google Lens". [1] Highlights include identifying trees/flowers in view, automatically connecting to Wifi by pointing at the sticker on a router, and pulling up a business listing and ratings by pointing at a building. Apparently it'll be a part of Google Camera, but also baked into the Assistant so you can take pictures within the context of your conversation to "show" the assistant things, clarify what you're talking about, or ask for more information about something unknown. Can also apparently integrate with your other Google services, with one example given as pointing your phone at a theater marquee, it pulling up ticket prices for you, and you saying "add this to my calendar". [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-lens-will-let-smartphone-cameras-understand-what-they-see-and-take-action/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-lens-will-let-smart...
mavhc 9y ago
The ones I tried in olden times just used GPS and orientation to overlay geodata, camera input wasn't used