iPhone TIPS: Wikitude Compass traces in iPhone 3.0 SDK?
Q: What is the main reason to buy the iPhone? A: Many people buy the iPhone for its fantastic user interface, the easiness to use the applications. The 25000+ applications to choose from. Many reasons. One of my main reasons to choose the iPhone was the tight integration of the hardware with Mac OS X. My favorite Operating system running on a mobile device. Built-in that magic package, I found the accelerometer, the multi touch screen, the phone with Edge and later 3G HSDPA in the 3G version. Also a GPS. Superb integration of the Google Maps gadget. I was amazed! Then the SDK came out last summer, more gadgets iFart, Fring Nimbuzz for the IM integration and Voice over 3G. With or without Jailbreak. Twitter clients every where. I was amazed again all those gadgets, most of them are even userful! Can you imagine?br /However, last week a colleague showed me his Android based Google G1 Gphone. I could NOT imagine I would see something “new”on “that” phone which was not on my iPhone. But the result was interesting and I was even amazed!br /I noticed that there was “one more thing” the G1 has and the iPhone 3G does NOT. It was a hardware component better known as a “span style=”font-weight: bold;”compass/span” (or span style=”font-weight: bold;”magnetometer/span or span style=”font-weight: bold;”digital compass/span). When you point your G1 Gphone to some direction, eg. to South, the compass can tell you exactly the direction, even when you stand still! Combined with GPS, its shows you from “where” you pointing your Gphone to the South, while standing still. And that opens the oppertunity for developing even more amazing location based gadgets: He showed me the Android app called WikiTude. In the next video the developer of Wikitude shows how it works: you see the “real world” through your Gphone camera and Wikitude will add textual information to the objects you are looking at. Real amazing watch: object height=”344″ width=”425″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/tpaJBu4BEuAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1″param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/tpaJBu4BEuAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”344″ width=”425″/embed/objectbr /This technology has the name Augmented Reality. Kind of Web 2.0, SOA term;) I hope the next generation iPhone will have this Compass on board. Let’s hope Apple can do that again and bringings the same Mac OS X platform with even more cool “location and direction based” gadgets. Meanwhile I can look for traces of evidence in the new iPhone SDK 3.0 beta. You never know what is in the iPhone 4G.br /br /span style=”font-size:100%;”em style=”font-family: arial; font-style: italic;”***Looking for an scratch proof iPhone 3G case? Go get an /ema style=”font-family: arial; font-style: italic;” href=”http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2741201-10565129?sid=ITT-TOP-5-10″ target=”_top”invisibleSHIELD for the iPhone/aem style=”font-family: arial; font-style: italic;”, the strongest protection for your iPhone backed by a 30 day moneyback guarantee, lifetime replacement warranty, and FREE shipping!**br /*** Twitter user? If you like this post please promote us and /ema style=”font-family: arial; font-style: italic;” href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Pretty%20good%20stuff%20about%20IPhone%20at%20http://iphone-tips-tricks.blogspot.com”Post a Twitter/aspan style=”font-style: italic;font-family:arial;” and I thank you!br //spanspan style=”font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;” blockquoteAugmented what Reality ?magnetometer? digital compass?: An good example is the stream below. It shows additional objects in the real world seen through the lens of the iPhone camera: A dog! /blockquote/spanspan style=”font-style: italic;font-family:arial;” br /br //spanimg style=”font-family: arial; font-style: italic;” alt=”icon” src=”http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=5ZOn/Kk6Ar0amp;bids=146261.739578667amp;type=10amp;subid=” height=”1″ width=”1″ //spanbr /object height=”344″ width=”425″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_0bitKDKdg0amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1″param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_0bitKDKdg0amp;color1=0xb1b1b1amp;color2=0xcfcfcfamp;hl=enamp;feature=player_embeddedamp;fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”344″ width=”425″/embed/objectdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”a href=”http://www.dpbolvw.net/bf106vpyvpxCFKHEFDECEDHLHDGL?sid=feed” target=”_top”
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