Augmented Reality: Will you use it?

[chobbs1]

Copy that alli. Thanks

[thinkTwice]

I'll use it, bur sparingly.
Imagine what it will do to battery life...

[ryrycalguy]

I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.

Just saying...

[snakes2003g]

Originally Posted by ryrycalguy

I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.

Just saying...

lol i could so see that happening. the robot part of course.

[Duvi]

Not sure I will.

I was part of a CrackBerry Meet-up; pretty much the same as a Tweet-up.

[redbeard]

Yes, there are all sorts of really cool things they can do, I'm hoping to see an augmented reality GPS app before too long.

[icebike]

Originally Posted by Alli

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.

Ah, sorry, that's not going to happen in your lifetime. Facial recognition takes HUGE databases and Monstrous processing power. If Apple object to Girls in swimsuits imagine how ape**** they will go over any application allowing anyone to fetch their details.

Not going to happen.

[icebike]

Originally Posted by Alli

It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.

Originally Posted by Alli

All you have to do is find people who tweet in your area. If they don't already have them - suggest one.

Why?

Isn't knowing when they are brushing their teeth enough info? Is it necessary to watch them too?

[ctt1wbw]

Well, as long as the apps don't cost as much as GMap or Navigon, then I'll use them. Although I think it might be a waste where I live. I'm sure I'm the only one in Stanley with an iPhone. I did see one or two other people in Luray with an iPhone...

[Alli]

icebike, evidently you are content knowing there are dozens of people in your area who share your interests in many things without ever getting to know them. Personally, I like to meet people with whom I share common interests. It's what's called a "social life." I still get together once a year for my spring break with people I met on forums 5 years ago. My best friend in the world is someone I met in a chat room 10 years ago. And now, thanks to tweetups, I have friends who come to my house weekly to watch Lost, (finally!) have local friends with whom to enjoy sushi every week or two, and have been invited to join an institution in the south that would previously have been out of my reach.

So stay home. No skin off my back.