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As a kid, I always wanted to be on the TV show "Supermarket Sweep."
In the middle of a Lowe's store in 2017, my dream almost came true. The home improvement retailer is rolling out an augmented-reality app that tells you the fastest way to find items on your list.
It's powered by Google's Tango, an indoor-mapping technology using special cameras to sense depth in 3D space. Measure objects, map a room and see virtual objects in the real world with augmented reality.
With a phone in one hand and a shopping cart in the other, I'm rushing around the aisles pulling items off the shelf. On screen I see a yellow line overlaid on the camera image, navigating me to the next item on my list. There's an aisle and shelf number in case I get really confused, as well as an estimate step counter that tells me how far I have to go.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @04:36PM
This strikes me as a different kind of reason to drop the oblig Manna reference.
Instead of the fantasy about hot chicks come to save the protagonist from his terrafoam prison and whisk him away to a post-scarcity utopia, this reminds me of the employees following Manna's commands over their headset like Borg drones in a half-conscious haze of obedience.