Monday, April 5, 2010

Smartphones - Converging Real-time Media and Augmented Space



First test on Live Feeds overlaid on Augmented Reality Applications (Acrossair) on an iPhone 3GS (not mine). Excuse the amateur quality and background noise. Do not make the same mistake of rushing and signing up for an iPhone 3G they can only display on a flat map layout.

Live feed information from both private and social media are uploaded and continually updated with geographic co-ordinates. The video shows instant information on live shows occurring today and also a collection of Panoramio photos that detemines the most popular locations for photo shoots (imagine yourself as a tourist attempting to instantly locate the most scenic location for a memorable photo opportunity).

The program has limited capabilities of displaying live twitter feeds, not to mention the lack of twitter users in Sydney. If we could imagine for a second that twitter feeds can be labelled and filtered according to keywords (location, activity, feelings, hours old the tweet) and updated on Augmented Geo-locations, could they reveal hidden, momentary, spots of activities which we may not have considered before?

Looks like TwittARound and flutter are likely contenders for these kind of possibilities..




Above: TwittARound augmented reality social networking browser.



Above: flutter - social media mapper

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