Monday, April 13, 2009
Augmented Reality
New York City is a very easy place to get lost. Trying to find landmarks and known business are nearly impossible unless you are carrying a lot of maps and books. Now engineers at Nokia are helping improve this by using Mobile Augmented Reality Applications. This is something on your phone where you could hold up a phone to landmarks or known business and it will tell you what they are and where they are. This could also help you when looking for a good restaurant to eat or a nice hotel to stay. Markus Kähäri last October revealed a prototype of the system at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. This is going to help many tourist around the world to get around there city they're in the right way. Not only will it help tourists it will help everyday people navigate themselves around there own cities because no matter how long you have lived in New York City you will never know every restaurant and business.
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This application would undoubtedly be a useful tool to navigate around new places and discover things that you originally did not known. This would lead to being a tourists ultimate guide as they would refrain from asking random people for directions or paying an insane amount for a tour guide.
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