Comments on: Augmented Reality is just hot, and the Web can do it

By: emnullfuenf

emnullfuenf — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:24:16 +0000

@michelle21: It’s indeed UIImagePicker i am using. That’s why it’s “semi conform”. The downside is that you can’t analyze the video image for tracking, which is essential for sophisticated AR applications.

Let’s hope Apple understands the potential of AR on the iPhone and opens up the API.

By: mdmadph

mdmadph — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:23:23 +0000

Wonder if they’re going to do some development on Android? The API’s for stuff like this are completely open on Android, and many have already released programs that utilize it.

By: michelle21

michelle21 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:45:06 +0000

if the author confirms that this app is indeed not using private api’s there will be a fury of activity in this direction.

By: perenzo

perenzo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:08:26 +0000

Another approach – though not as impressive as this mashup – to connect Twitter and locations is Twittori http://www.twittori.com Here the single Tweets can be attached to a geo location and then be ‘found’ if others visit the place. The iPhone App is still in review but a video and a demo for iPhone Simulator is available: http://blog.twittori.com/twittori-application-preview-for-the-iphone-simulator/

By: michelle21

michelle21 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:57:29 +0000

I’m not seeing how he is getting the live video window without using an undocumented api method. (and I know which one I would use). right now the only way to get video with documented methods is to use the uiimagepicker.

The author claims he is doing this entirely without native api’s. if this is true it doesn’t violate the sdk.

I’m a bit worried if it should, ,the application I’m working on does not yet include augumented reality, but it certainly could. but uses jquiry and a whole lot of client side javascript to do visualization of complex data using the iphone and a jquery based visualization toolkit. Interesting enough it uses dashcode instead of iwebkit.

I’d love to incorporate live video walkthroughs, I will be most happy to sign the petition.