#AR 'Augmented reality' travel apps bolster smartphones
スマートフォンのARを使用した、旅行ガイドサービスの利用が増えているようだ。下記の写真は、Wikipediaの文字情報を位置情報にマッピングしてオーバーレイ表示する有名なWIKITUDE。
Want to "see" what the ski slope looks like before heading down the hill? Or walk the zebra crossing on London's Abbey Road with the Beatles?The travel industry is starting to grab onto radical new "augmented reality" technology to give people a feel for vacation sites with the point of a smartphone. The technology — which combines a camera, GPS and compass in a smartphone — enables the phone's camera to "recognize" an object or place that a user is pointing to by overlaying the screen's image to location data.
via USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-03-22-realitytravel22_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-TechTopStories+%28Tech+-+Top+Stories%29
Want to "see" what the ski slope looks like before heading down the hill? Or walk the zebra crossing on London's Abbey Road with the Beatles?The travel industry is starting to grab onto radical new "augmented reality" technology to give people a feel for vacation sites with the point of a smartphone. The technology — which combines a camera, GPS and compass in a smartphone — enables the phone's camera to "recognize" an object or place that a user is pointing to by overlaying the screen's image to location data.
via USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-03-22-realitytravel22_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-TechTopStories+%28Tech+-+Top+Stories%29
