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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Augmented Reality and Bible Studying

So, I'm sitting here with a guy who was at a study last night with me and we are talking about Isaiah. Then I had an idea: what if the camera and web access of a mobile device could be used to add a bit of augmented reality to studying.

Here's the idea. You have your print bible and mobile phone. But instead of opening a browser and search engine, you open an application that is a browser but accesses your device's camera.

You then use your mobile like a magnifying glass and place it over the text you want to know more about. After a few seconds, you get links to wikipedia and other resources link maps and stuff.

From there you still have your print content to read; but get the access of the web for the data you don't have.

Cherry on top to the first bible software company that can make it happen and then monetize that access in single use and multiple use license deals. With those deals, give the user a limited license to remix that content for another use.

According to the guy sitting beside me right now; he'd buy this.

2 Comments:

At Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:14:00 PM, Antoine said...: This is not the stuff of dreams; its already happening now: http://is.gd/1wcg9

I'm just asking that it happens when we read the text; doesn't anyone else see that as having clear and present value?
At Monday, July 13, 2009 2:50:00 PM, Antoine said...: Wow! Now this is the stuff of dreams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0