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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:39 am Post subject: Route66 - Innovative Navigation with AR Follow Me Feature |
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Just when we were beginning to give up hope of finding anything truly new and interesting at Mobile World Congress we hear the Route66 were showing a new navigation application.
And so we looked them up. Although not exhibiting, Route66 had a small meeting room and were demonstrating the software to manufacturers and partners. Paul Warmer, VP of Marketing gave us an in-depth demo of the software which will launch on Android soon.
Route66 have chosen TomTom map data and the software has a number of unique features.
The headline innovation for us was FollowMe. A superbly innovative Augmented Reality (AR) mode that places a target car over a real world view, acquired using the smartphones camera, coupled to a traditional information ribbon across the bottom of the screen.
Read more here. _________________ Darren Griffin
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Pocketgps Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 2145 Location: Midlands, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Very clever.
But surely very distracting |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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No more so than any other navigation system, it takes no more time to glance at the screen in this design than any other and it's far easier to digest the information. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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tomthompson Frequent Visitor
Joined: 26/08/2003 15:43:37 Posts: 386 Location: Southampton, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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The question is what happens if you take the wrong turning , does someone in the back of the car moon at you ? _________________ Asus Zenfone 2 twin sim, Garmin Zumo 550, 660 and pocketgps speed camera database
I keep on learning but they invent new things faster ,How do I keep up ? |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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For a moment there, I thought it was something rather different.
I thought "Follow me" meant it could "chase" a particular car ahead.
How many times have you tried to follow a friend in another car and then lost them because you got stuck at lights or whatever?
Something to help in that situation WOULD be handy! |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15155 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Andy_P wrote: | For a moment there, I thought it was something rather different.
I thought "Follow me" meant it could "chase" a particular car ahead.
How many times have you tried to follow a friend in another car and then lost them because you got stuck at lights or whatever?
Something to help in that situation WOULD be handy! |
a telephone call to say "slow down!".
unless of course you're stalking them...
MaFt |
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exportman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 261 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: |
telephone call to say "slow down!".
MaFtFt |
Hands free of course |
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yee_har Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Do the mods/staff have the inside track on when this is due to the market?
I'm on their "advise me" list (or should be) but just wonder if there's anything on the grapevine.
Cheers |
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MikeB Frequent Visitor
Joined: 20/08/2002 11:51:57 Posts: 3859 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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yee_har wrote: | Do the mods/staff have the inside track on when this is due to the market?
I'm on their "advise me" list (or should be) but just wonder if there's anything on the grapevine.
Cheers |
We havent heard anything since MWC in February, but we are expecting it any time now. _________________ Mike Barrett |
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yee_har Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers MikeB.
Apologies for delay in replying - I wasn't lost, honest! |
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