CrashCorp, the joint venture between former Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump, and former co-founder of Socialthing, Matt Galligan, have released two videos of a proof-of-concept app developed for the iPhone.
After speaking to Galligan, he mentioned that CrashCorp is changing the direction of their company. He also notes:
Right now, there’s a gap in the market, as it relates to making it easy to add persistent location to mobile apps. We’re simply addressing that gap by providing an end-to-end location solution for app developers. Part of that solution will include developing SDK’s for mobile devices, that will allow app developers to quickly add new ways to view location data.
One of these views might be something similar to the proof of concepts Galligan posted to his Flickr account, which are embedded below for your connivence.
heh, been waiting to see what they would do after your original post about them.
Can wait till google maps does that
Cool stuff, but he mentions “persistent locations”, so if people are tweeting from a mobile device and on the move… this won’t work right?
Persistent can simply mean data that’s persisting, not just the user’s location persisting.
I apologize, I’m not all that technical (marketing guy). What does that mean from a consumer perspective, given your twitter example? Someone would tie a tweet to a physical location and in the future someone else can go by and “see it”? Sorry if that’s a dumb question, trying to get my head around it.
That’s basically what we mean, however, there are far more implications than just tweets.
I didn’t get it either until Jack asked without tech terminology. The blog post didn’t help either.
Cool looking tech. I love seeing more good stuff come out of Boulder.
I ‘persistent location’ means that once you, for instance, tweet at a given location the tweet is attached to that location for some time frame. I think that would mean that if you are tweeting on the move that you’d leave a trail of tweets. Sounds fun!
Dude that’s sick!! I can see a lot of possibilities with this.
One is to have coupons show up when they’re pointing at a certain store or restaurant.
I am ACTIVELY seeking people to work on this type of stuff for my firm. If you can help out or know who can, send me a message @jessewaites
Other than the “gee that’s neat” factor, how is this adding any value to a standard map view?
I thought that dude sounded pretty dumb when he said “that’s a picture of the intersection we’re looking at right now.” Remind me why you need a picture of an intersection you’re staring at?
Maybe this AR tech will have an application in games, and in specialized areas like helping people avoid utilities when digging or servicing a complicated machine, but other than that it seems like a gimmick.
This app uses the compass in a very useful way: http://www.pops...one-app-awesome
Rob, totally get what you’re saying about the picture at the intersection, but we didn’t mean it in the “gee whiz” factor. It’s more about the fact that the demo showed off that location data can be overlayed with the camera, and display rich data in a new and interesting way. The intersection was simply validation that we were looking at something that existed in the virtual and real space at the same time.
A more interesting case would have been when we looked at the Whole Foods on the corner, and saw a picture taken inside at the salad bar. While the content may not be interesting, the implications are.
AR technology has many uses, this is just a super simple example. It’s also not our core business, we’re simply empowering developers with the technology.
Nice demo, Matt. Very cool.
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cheers!
Nice job, Matt and crew! And props for the Brightkite integration, we really appreciate that
This is a brilliant idea! Best of luck guys.
do I really miss the important point here? what’s so new about this demo???
I happen to use wikitude (http://www.wikitude.org/) on my G1 for moths now & it just works…
That’s just the thing, there’s absolutely nothing new about the demo itself. We are building something that’s much bigger than just this view, and just the demo. We’re simply showing off one “view” into the world we’re creating.
That is an extremely cool demo. I see some serious value on the local level. If I was a media chain I’d be assessing how to integrate that technology with my existing local advertisers–in a hurry.
I found all the people shown in the videos to be just incredibly irritating. I wonder if this is a price to pay for all this new tech.
Conceptually, impressive. But, lets base this on something other than Twitter because really, who cares how far away someone was when they tweeted something.
Twitter and Brighkite were just very easy to get put together in a short amount of time. They had location data that we could use, as well as example content, and would exist no matter where we went. It stood as solid demo material.
Rest assured, we will be far beyond Twitter in no time.
Go Joe !!!! I knew Joe when he was in high school. This guy has no limits.