Most of us owns smartphone and use it daily. Almost every smartphone has a GPS built in. It can track our exact location with GPS chip inside, and this opens the door for many possibilities. My entrepreneurial idea is to apply this GPS location data to real-time social elements to create augmented reality application for smartphone. Application will feature elements ranging from social media to gaming and general information on surrounding environment.
The concept of augmented reality is promising but it hasn't hit the mass population yet. Although there are already application that takes advantage of augmented reality with camera functionality and location data, they are not polished and still in beta stage with developers testing if their idea would work or not. With technology evolving rapidly and more people understanding the concept of augmented reality and it's value as well as exploding rate of people embracing smartphone era, it's not far from becoming reality. I would like to be involved.
In this week lecture, we learned about social media and how it's becoming part of our daily lives. It's almost no brainer most of us have Facebook accounts or Twitter and actively engaging in social media services in their own ways. It's the next big thing. It's still growing and have lots of room for improvements. For example, because people are now familiar with checking-in their location to social media services, they can check-in when they walk in to a bar or a club and see the ratio of female and male in that particular location. They can share more data about their interests and chat with people with similar interests using their smartphone and hang out. These are all possible through revolution of social media happening right now and technology that can make this happen, which is augmented reality. These kind of application isn't out yet and I would like to develop this idea further.
So in this augmented reality world based on location and social network, what would it be like? Many times companies are using augmented reality to allow you to see meta data on your surroundings such as who is around or what resources are near you. What is the biggest gain to the customer? I think there are a lot of opportunities.
ReplyDeleteThis could be a real catch if you tirelessly work on achieving this augmented reality social networking project. Then, like you said, you could use such technology to find like minded people in the bar to commute with. This also sound like a Google venture you should take. Best of luck.
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