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It's cool that people are pulling this off, but I can't help but wonder if they're asking the wrong question: "can we?" instead of "should we?" Maybe this is j

by mrshoe 17y ago

It's cool that people are pulling this off, but I can't help but wonder if they're asking the wrong question: "can we?" instead of "should we?" Maybe this is just meant as a proof of concept. In that case, it's great. But if it's meant to be a useful way to find restaurants and get reviews, I think there are much better interfaces for that. Including existing apps.

siong1987 17y ago
It is not about restaurants. Imagine this scenario: When you are walking on a street, you pull out our app and look around you. Now, you know everything about that street. It is a totally different experience if you are trying to find this kind of information on a 2d map. It is like google street view vs google map.
- stener 17y ago
  Imho 2d google map is superior interface for finding information. I don't need to move with my phone around to get information etc. Was it your need to be able to recognize buildings based on street-view, because you can not read it from map? Technically impressive, thumbs up.
khangtoh 17y ago
Absolutely. AR is probably the hottest thing now in the valley riding on CrashCorp, etc. So will AR be useful as a new way to find reviews and restaurants, who knows. Time will time.
- ynniv 17y ago
  It may be a good way to find VC money and like minded people, but it's totally useless to the rest of the world.
Shooter 17y ago
I think you are correct mrshoe (regarding the "can we" vs. "should we" and also about using the best interface for a given purpose.) We developed an app very similar to this (restaurant ratings, school ratings, vacant apartments, homes for sale, home sale prices, traffic flow visualizations, etc. etc.) for our real estate brokerage and real estate investment division. It got a nice "gee whiz" response from some of our geekier clients, but that was about it. We stopped using it on phones when our first client nearly broke their leg by tripping on a curb. [We don't like lawsuits.] We now use a multitouch tablet instead. The picture quality is much improved, clients can use gestures to manipulate the data, and they don't run into things anymore.We just call them 'interactive maps' so we don't scare our less tech-savvy clients. This type of thing has been around for awhile. I don't completely understand the novelty this holds for this particular (techy) crowd. I guess the future is still just really unevenly distributed...?

by mrshoe 17y ago

siong1987 17y ago

It is not about restaurants. Imagine this scenario: When you are walking on a street, you pull out our app and look around you. Now, you know everything about that street. It is a totally different experience if you are trying to find this kind of information on a 2d map. It is like google street view vs google map.

stener 17y ago
Imho 2d google map is superior interface for finding information. I don't need to move with my phone around to get information etc. Was it your need to be able to recognize buildings based on street-view, because you can not read it from map? Technically impressive, thumbs up.

khangtoh 17y ago

Absolutely. AR is probably the hottest thing now in the valley riding on CrashCorp, etc. So will AR be useful as a new way to find reviews and restaurants, who knows. Time will time.

ynniv 17y ago
It may be a good way to find VC money and like minded people, but it's totally useless to the rest of the world.

Shooter 17y ago

I think you are correct mrshoe (regarding the "can we" vs. "should we" and also about using the best interface for a given purpose.) We developed an app very similar to this (restaurant ratings, school ratings, vacant apartments, homes for sale, home sale prices, traffic flow visualizations, etc. etc.) for our real estate brokerage and real estate investment division. It got a nice "gee whiz" response from some of our geekier clients, but that was about it. We stopped using it on phones when our first client nearly broke their leg by tripping on a curb. [We don't like lawsuits.] We now use a multitouch tablet instead. The picture quality is much improved, clients can use gestures to manipulate the data, and they don't run into things anymore.We just call them 'interactive maps' so we don't scare our less tech-savvy clients. This type of thing has been around for awhile. I don't completely understand the novelty this holds for this particular (techy) crowd. I guess the future is still just really unevenly distributed...?