[don't know if friends in China would be able to get access the following two youtube videos or not, but anyway... ]
Got the idea of augmented reality from the perception class I’ve taken this semester in psychology department. David Field (超帅的教授… 不能忍了), the professor of the class, introduced some really interesting Virtual Reality ideas from cognitive science perspective. One of the examples he showed in class was an iphone app: by using the camera function in iphone, u would be able to give tags based on the real objects in natural scenes, including giving people more local directions (as opposed to Google Map’s street view, cause the street view won’t be automatically adjusted based on what’s shown in your phone’s camera), give information on specific restaurants or museums.
And, here we’ve got Google Goggle, the app for Android was officially released yesterday. Someone in my review session mentioned one friend has actually downloaded and used it on his android phone, and it did search the information based on the photo of a book they took.
Another thing is… we’ve got really big snow last night and this morning. So would Goggle or things like iphone’s augmented VR be able to recognize my apartment even if it’s covered by snow? At least in Ithaca, they need to have that function, haha~
Chen and I made a really creepy snowman LOL!
