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Oh hey, I had this absolute exact idea 10 years ago. I ended up pivoting to something else, but I'll watch your development with keen interest :)

handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is one of the use-cases lots of people've thought up for location services + AR, over the last decade-plus. It has the following problems: 1) A bad chicken/egg critical-mass problem for adoption. (Apple, Google, and maybe Facebook are best positioned to overcome this, if they built the feature in to their OS or apps) 2) Content moderation. 3) Even if you treat it as a friends-and-family thing rather than a more broadly social experience (which solves #1 and #2 fairly well) AR on a screened device is approximately 1,000x worse to use than on the hypothetical non-dorky and practically-useful-battery-life AR glasses that every major tech company seems to expect in our nearish future (judging by their continued emphasis on AR, despite its being kind-of a shit and gimmicky interface outside some niche uses on current hardware) I suspect 2 and 3 are why FB, Google, or Apple haven't taken on the challenge in 1, yet. I expect they will if/when 3 gets solved, and this kind of real-world commenting/tagging thing will be widespread in a hurry.
- purplecats 5y ago
  yeah that makes sense. I was actually planning to do it based on hyper-geolocation as opposed to using the camera
spacebear 5y ago
Haha, likewise. I've been walking around for the past year thinking about how this should exist. Glad it does now!
- azinman2 5y ago
  This has literally been done tens of not hundreds of times. It’s probably one of the go-tos for students in any kind of art/hci class. I did it myself back in 2007 as a student with a partnership with Telefonica and the Catalan government in Spain!
  - mgkimsal 5y ago
    every "hackathon" I went to for years had some try a variation of this. and "bill-splitting" apps. but... wtf - you're an adult who can afford an apple smart phone. how many times are you "splitting a bill" and having to settle up with people such that this is such a burden that you'll want to use an app for that? that one truly flummoxed me, but every hackathon event (pre-covid) I went to had people talking about this sort of problem.
    - vbsteven 5y ago
      I’ve seen these apps used at almost every company I’ve worked at that orders food delivery once or a few times per week.
      - lixtra 5y ago
        What precisely where they using it for? Beware of the dog here?
        vbsteven 5y ago
        I was talking about the bill splitting apps that are used in situations where the same group of people frequently orders food together.
  - mypalmike 5y ago
    Yeah, I worked with a team in 2001 developing a Palm Pilot version of something similar for military use.
    - purplecats 5y ago
      I dreamed about owning a palm pilot when I was a child. I would sweat at the thought of owning one of these one day: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Palm_TX.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Palm_TX.... I recall they used to be about $200. Forgot they existed.

handrous 5y ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is one of the use-cases lots of people've thought up for location services + AR, over the last decade-plus. It has the following problems: 1) A bad chicken/egg critical-mass problem for adoption. (Apple, Google, and maybe Facebook are best positioned to overcome this, if they built the feature in to their OS or apps) 2) Content moderation. 3) Even if you treat it as a friends-and-family thing rather than a more broadly social experience (which solves #1 and #2 fairly well) AR on a screened device is approximately 1,000x worse to use than on the hypothetical non-dorky and practically-useful-battery-life AR glasses that every major tech company seems to expect in our nearish future (judging by their continued emphasis on AR, despite its being kind-of a shit and gimmicky interface outside some niche uses on current hardware) I suspect 2 and 3 are why FB, Google, or Apple haven't taken on the challenge in 1, yet. I expect they will if/when 3 gets solved, and this kind of real-world commenting/tagging thing will be widespread in a hurry.

purplecats 5y ago
yeah that makes sense. I was actually planning to do it based on hyper-geolocation as opposed to using the camera

spacebear 5y ago

Haha, likewise. I've been walking around for the past year thinking about how this should exist. Glad it does now!

azinman2 5y ago
This has literally been done tens of not hundreds of times. It’s probably one of the go-tos for students in any kind of art/hci class. I did it myself back in 2007 as a student with a partnership with Telefonica and the Catalan government in Spain!
- mgkimsal 5y ago
  every "hackathon" I went to for years had some try a variation of this. and "bill-splitting" apps. but... wtf - you're an adult who can afford an apple smart phone. how many times are you "splitting a bill" and having to settle up with people such that this is such a burden that you'll want to use an app for that? that one truly flummoxed me, but every hackathon event (pre-covid) I went to had people talking about this sort of problem.
  - vbsteven 5y ago
    I’ve seen these apps used at almost every company I’ve worked at that orders food delivery once or a few times per week.
    - lixtra 5y ago
      What precisely where they using it for? Beware of the dog here?
      - vbsteven 5y ago
        I was talking about the bill splitting apps that are used in situations where the same group of people frequently orders food together.
- mypalmike 5y ago
  Yeah, I worked with a team in 2001 developing a Palm Pilot version of something similar for military use.
  - purplecats 5y ago
    I dreamed about owning a palm pilot when I was a child. I would sweat at the thought of owning one of these one day: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Palm_TX.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Palm_TX.... I recall they used to be about $200. Forgot they existed.