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G1 and the Augmented Reality
Morten is playing around with the Googlephone aka. HTC T-Mobile G1 with Wikitude installed (I read about the application on Claus Dahl’s blog – a former ZYB-employee as well).
The application is built on three pillars:
- The phone camera’s live view
- The compass feature
- Geo-tagged WikiPedia-articles
So it will look somewhat like the picture you see on the left (ideally, at least) – while somewhat “previewing” before taking a picture, you now see information about what is being showed on the screen. It’s an “enhanced reality”, and obviously it will be exploited by the marketers within a few years, but for now it’s innocent and really cool.
During the weekend I will test the G1 a bit more and write a longer review once I’ve exploited the full capabilities of the phone.
(I’m only borrowing the phone from ZYB for the next couple of days, so if you have any questions, act fast.)