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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 19 2017, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-is-the-restroom? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday March 19 2017, @08:55PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 19 2017, @08:55PM (#481250)

    they acquire a lot of very detailed information about people

    Yet they cancel some of their most information dense sources like Reader, which is just weird.

    I find it fun trolling to ask the more google-paranoid people I know how google intends to profit off normal users doing normal things when they couldn't even get Reader to pay for itself of all things.

    Much as I'd like to think of a random 5K of telemetry as being as precious as my bodily fluids, even google stealing my telemetry or precious bodily fluids still doesn't have a wide enough marketplace for them to sell it at a profit.

    Just because a business model sounds scary to someone a bit paranoid, does not mean the marketplace is under any obligation to implement it and make it profitable even at billion dollar google scale.... I mean they could sell this and they could sell that but they can't even make a profit off what appears to be even more valuable stuff.

    Unless its all a google disinformation campaign. "Project Grassy Knoll". Hmm. Hold on while I wrap some tinfoil on me head.

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