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May 27, 2010
Augmented Reality Comes to TriMet
Clearly an escape from the real world is required.
Seriously, there are several new applications making use of TriMet's open data, and a couple of them take an augmented reality approach. For example, you can point your camera phone at a bus stop and get an overlay of the next arrival time.
Very cool, but since the iPhone version requires the 3GS and I only have the lowly 3G, I have not yet been able to try it.
Posted by Chris Smith at 10:58 AM
Comments
May 27, 2010 1:10 PM
EngineerScotty Says:
Any version for Android?
Now that Apple has passed Micro$oft in market cap, it's officially cool to hate them now. Monopolistic pigs. :)
May 31, 2010 2:03 PM
Dave H Says:
Scotty, from the blog post:
The junaio app works on any iPhone 3GS or Android phone, and allows all kinds of agencies to make their datasets augmented-reality friendly.
So yeah, Android is a go.
June 9, 2010 7:40 PM
Jason Barbour Says:
Something else worth mentionng which I noticed the other day is the new "mobile" website, which seems accessable through both "m.trimet.org" and "trimet.org/m".
I will give credit where credit is due, it seems done right, and gives quick links to Transit Tracker, the Trip Planner, etc.
Of course, I would rather have an announcement that TriMet is increasing actual revenue service and reinstating lines 74 and 95, but hey I understand that computer technicians aren't operators or service planners. :)
