If you haven’t already seen this funny video of Q&A session with the founders of tonchidot, an iphone application company at last year’s Techcrunch50 you should go see it, I am not sure how tonchidot is hoping to implement tagging the world all by itself but one thing they sure did was pointing to the future, future of the mobile applications.
Imagine walking on the streets of chandnichowk, holding your phone pointing at a dhaba and you get reviews about the aaloo paranthas. You are out there for shopping and you find out that the “Life ishtyle” store you are standing at, has great offers on the apparels. You are at a conference and you don’t know this person standing beside you, pointing the mobile phone to a person and you get his webpage, linkedin and facebook profile. This is something probably we all dream but the truth is the dream is not far from reality.
Investor’s Business Daily recently posted an interview with Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs to discuss the last 25 years of wireless technology innovation and what lies ahead.
“We’ve been focused on things like how do you improve wellness and the productivity of doctors… Someone from my team told me that the Holy Grail was to have noninvasive sensors, like a wireless Band-Aid, that could monitor how many calories you take in,” Jacobs said. “Another area I’m excited about is this notion of augmented reality. Because phones have connectivity and location awareness capabilities, cameras and other things in the phone, in the future you will be able to hold a phone up and have it look at the world around you and things will be identified for you, including people and places.”
Though Jacobs did not give a time frame for his vision’s realization, it might happen sooner than he thinks. ivisit, a company focused on mobile conferencing and wellness applications has step ahead in this space. ivisit’s products seestar and seescan offer visually impaired users a virtual “pair of eyes” and object recognition capabilities that leverage a mobile phone’s camera to detect and recognize specific objects, like currency and packaged goods.
See the demo of their real-time object recognition application below:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUxGvDqok4
Here for consumer goods identification, the application reportedly relies on existing databases, but the real key to the app is its ability to store user generated images and labels for later use in identification.
Pranav Mistry’s sixth sense, the augmented reality device also is a promising development in this space and could have a tremendous edge on others as it heavily relies on gesture recognition and internet making navigation and information access easy, with projectors soon getting integrated on to the mobile phones we will for sure see 6th sense making waves in the mobile app market.
Check the video out about Sixth Sense below:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfV4R4x2SK0
