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* Mapping the physical world Ever wanted a floor plan for your home? Just wave your phone around. * Visual annotation Add direction overlays, see the plan fo
by groby_b 13y ago
* Mapping the physical world
Ever wanted a floor plan for your home? Just wave your phone around.
* Visual annotation
Add direction overlays, see the plan for a play your team is executing on the helmet HUD, highlight "dangerous"(weaving, too fast, whatnot) drivers on the car HUD.
* Integrate sensor data to extend human perception
Add an IR overlay. Sample sound across the room, do a volumetric display of noise levels. "see" the strength of your WiFi signal.
* Image post processing
You have a 3d map of an area, plus pictures of all textures - rearrange to your hearts content.
* Alternate Reality
Completely change the look of the world around you, just because you can. (Semi-useful application: Interior decoration. See that couch right in your living room before you buy it)
There are tons of applications there. It mixes the "reality" of physical space with the malleability of the digital space.
- evanlivingston 13y agoI think I'm a neo-luddite.
- secstate 13y agoI pretty much stopped reading when they were going through the possible applications. Find my way around a super-store, shit I'd rather just stay out if at all possible. In the meantime, I'm sure this will revolutionize something. It always does. I'm just in your same position ... a neo-luddite. Also, I would much rather have a space elevator than a 3D mapping phone.
- JabavuAdams 13y agoThe 3D mapping phone gets you the space elevator, because you need AI lab-assistants / engineers / scientists to build the space elevator.
- SamuelKillin 13y agoIt's not really an either/or situation
- gilgoomesh 13y agoI don't think you're a luddite. With any technology like this, it's important to ask: what applications does this really enable and will those applications simply be a waste of time. This is an unveiling of a technology but the "applications" they show in this video are probably a waste of time to most users. Google have not shown a killer app that uses this tech. Maybe they're working on something (they hint that they may be planning to integrate indoor mapping into Google Maps which might be interesting) but they're not showing it in this video. That doesn't mean the tech is bad. But we haven't seen enough to judge it as useful to end users.
- jrockway 13y agoGoogle Maps already has indoor maps.
- girvo 13y agoYeah but they even said in the video that they struggle with indoor navigation and positioning.
- malvim 13y agoGoogle has acknowledged that their vision of where this is going is, at best, partial: "While we may believe we know where this technology will take us, history suggests we that should be humble in our predictions. We are excited to see the effort take shape with each step forward." I liked this part.
- neumann 13y agohah! That's the word I was looking for.
- Gigablah 13y agoThis has applications even for, uh, "normal" people. For example, online real estate portals. People who are house-hunting would probably appreciate floorplans or a 3D tour. Agents, landlords or property developers would be able to easily create those with their mobile device.
- aestra 13y ago>Agents, landlords or property developers would be able to easily create those with their mobile device But they won't! It is very difficult to get those people to post more than a low res picture of one room online when they can very easily walk through the house with a video camera, for example. Even large apartment complexes have 1-2 pictures on their website and call it a day.
- steveax 13y agoIndeed. Panoramic photo VR tours were also gonna be the next big thing for real estate (remember QTVR?) but that only made sense for one-of-a-kind high end properties. Everything else is a commodity.
- janjongboom 13y agoI used to work for one of the largest real estate portals in Europe, and people seldom watched the video of a property (if available). We also added floorplans from floorplanner.com and that converted way better. Now 25% of the listed properties has one.
- smikhanov 13y agoTo be honest, 25% is a very low number for such an essential piece of information about the property. Do you mind sharing how often people look at floor plans on your portal? I'm a Russian living in the UK and it still surprises me that what Russians consider to be a viable information about property (gross internal and net internal area, kitchen area and a floor plan) is so rarely present on the UK property sites. "Lovely 2-bedroom" is all you normally expect.
- higherpurpose 13y agoSince they want to "map the physical world", Google should buy the Euclideon guys already (Unlimited Detail Engine, Geoverse, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irf-HJ4fBls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irf-HJ4fBls And then release it for VR applications/games (one can hope).
- maninalift 13y agoI thought they were investment-scamming techno-cons who had never been releasing video demonstrations for years without ever releasing a product.
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- Houshalter 13y agoThe technology is amazing, but honestly these applications don't really seem that valuable, especially to the average user. Facial recognition is the main application of machine vision I can think of, but even that has limited utility. And I'm not sure if it will actually benefit from this technology.