Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Next New Thing

Even though self driving cars are not to far away from becoming a reality, for those who still enjoy manually driving their cars and rely on traditional GPS systems, I would love to see a merge between GPS, hologram and smartphones.

Most people use their cell phones for GPS purposes trough applications such as Waze and Google Maps so the smartphone component in the merge is essential. I was recently reading an article that claimed a small number of car accidents were caused by staring long at your GPS and not concentrating on the road. So with this technology, we can use our smartphones to project directions on a small section of our windshield so that we can easily switch glances between directions and the road a lot faster than looking down. When not using GPS it can project other things such as weather, speedometer and for safety measures it will not be able to project video content.

Another use of that same technology can be used when making video calls trough our smartphones or other applications such as Skype. Using face recognition technology it would be cool to see the hologram of the person your speaking with. It could also be used for watching videos and so many other things. Holographic in general have not been developed to their full potential even thou its clear there are many applications and uses for it.




2 comments:

  1. Yo, bro, I also prepared as exactly same as the concept, I was waiting for the visual media devices without projectors, I really hope the time is coming that we can use as a standardized version of the device.
    Very eloquent, well written essays.

    Thanks,

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  2. This is some cool tech stuff, really enjoyed reading this. This would be like New Media to the tenth power, integrating things like facial recognition into a video chat is awesome. Before the Galaxy Note 7 was recalled it was the only phone to have an Iris scanner, so we're seeing technology move in this biometric way that really integrates the individual and the experience. So we have to wait and see!

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