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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 c0lo on Monday March 20 2017, @02:39AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 20 2017, @02:39AM (#481337) Journal

    Isn't it easier to just click a couple times at amazon and not have to drive to the store and wait in line and argue with the cashier about extended warranties etc?

    This is yet another reason I'm drinking only Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 gal, 128 fl. oz. [amazon.com]. Yes, the overseas delivery tends to take a while, but ordering with 6 weeks in advance each day solves the availability problem; I wouldn't want to deprive myself of the goodness of Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 gal, 128 fl. oz.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 20 2017, @01:29PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 20 2017, @01:29PM (#481481)

    Amazon's prices for food are legendarily bad, for that specific example I'd use Peapod which wasn't that bad of a deal a decade ago.

    If you buy a hungry families week worth of food the extra cost of peapod is about six months of food price inflation, so if you intend to eat food in six months the additional cost is not a big deal.

    I had excellent luck with produce and meat quality when I was ordering from peapod.

    Our work and school schedules got shuffled around so there was no point in peapod anymore but I do kinda miss it sometimes. I mean fundamentally walking around a store for an hour isn't even good exercise and I only get a couple contiguous hours per week off so they're valuable to me. I'm tempted to go back...

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday March 20 2017, @02:18PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 20 2017, @02:18PM (#481497) Journal

      Amazon's prices for food are legendarily bad, for that specific example I'd use Peapod which wasn't that bad of a deal a decade ago.

      (groan)

      Come on, mate, you really need that (grin) signal?

      Tuscan whole milk [knowyourmeme.com] and the Three wolves moon [knowyourmeme.com] are classic memes relate to Amazon reviews.

      See some oldies-but-goldies [excusememe.com]

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